The issue of the KMT’s illicit party assets continues to be an issue linked with broader efforts aimed at achieving transitional justice in Taiwan, as observed in a number of recent incidents...
The convoluted saga of the Chinese Women’s League continues, with reports that the organization has decided to transition into a political party in order to maintain the organization...
Efforts to realize transitional justice and to address the KMT’s illicit party assets have encountered a significant obstacle in the form of a ruling by the Taipei High Administrative Court that the assets of the Chinese Women’s League must be unfrozen...
In comparing the Tsai administration’s attempt to target illegal KMT party assets in Taiwan and the current anti-corruption campaign undertaken by the Xi administration in China, perhaps we can draw out some of the differences between the Taiwanese and Chinese political systems...
If, as of late, the KMT has been demonstrating the fact that the DPP’s investigation into its party assets has led to an inability for it to pay party workers, this merely reflects to what degree the KMT is reliant on illegally obtained party assets to maintain the functioning of the party...
Is the KMT running scared on the issue of party assets? A freeze of a KMT-owned Bank SinoPac account was recently ordered by the task force investigating KMT party assets. The freeze took place after a withdrawal of 520 million NTD from the Bank SinoPac account, which was exchanged for ten cashiers checks from the Bank of Taiwan...
The striking results of 2016 elections have come about not only because of “regular” rumblings of economic discontent or the “traditional cleavages” of identity politics...
That no satisfactory method of resolving the question of what do about KMT party assets has emerged reflects that there is still no satisfactory answer of how to resolve questions of lingering authoritarianism by the KMT...