Nurturing a New Chinese Culture On May 20, the inauguration of the president of the ROC was completed under the gaze of citizens and the international media. This event formally opened the democratic era for Chinese, fulfilled Dr. Sun Yat-sen's ideals for political modernization, and shattered the myth that Confucian based "Asian values" and Western democracy cannot coexist.
民國八十五年五月二十日，中華民國第九任總統就職典禮在全國同胞和世界媒體的矚目下圓滿落幕，正式開啟了中國人的民主時代，完成了國父孫中山先生政治現代化的理想，也打破了以儒家思想為主軸的所謂亞洲價值與西方民主難以並存的迷思。