A political spat between high-ranking KMT and DPP politicians broke out last month after comments by former president Ma Ying-jeou of the KMT regarding Taiwan’s national defense. According to Ma, in the event of a Chinese invasion, Taiwan’s military would not last for more than several days, as a result of which the “first battle would be the last battle.” Consequently, Ma referred to current president Tsai Ing-wen’s cross-strait policy as overly provocative of China, as having brought Taiwan to “the brink of war”...
The KMT unexpectedly reversed course on plans to conduct a cross-strait forum with the CCP earlier this week, citing anger over news reports from Chinese state-run media as the reason for doing so...
One of Taiwan's largest English-language domestic media outlets, Taiwan News, continued its record of publishing news reports actively endangering Taiwan's national security yesterday. This took place after the publication of an article entitled “China fires Long March rocket directly over Taiwan”, written by senior editor Keoni Everington...
The issue of American beef and pork imports into Taiwan has dominated the Taiwanese news cycle for days at this point, and it is rare to see such a clear example of hypocrisy from politicians. The two major parties, the KMT and the DPP, switched sides and now occupy opposite positions on the same issue...
Controversy has broken out after claims that the Taiwanese government has been holding five Hongkongers that fled to Taiwan under detention for the last two months. The Taiwanese government was, for the most part, opaque over past weeks about whether it is, in fact, holding the five Hongkongers—with questions having been raised about whether they have been allowed to see lawyers or contact their families...
If there is any doubt that contemporary China is a Han ethno-state, they should be quelled regarding new policies introduced by the Chinese government in Inner Mongolia intended to stamp out the use of Mongolian. There are over four million residents of inner Mongolia of ethnic Mongolian descent...
A wave of backlash has ensued against the KMT after comments by a party representative at the party’s recent national congress arguing that the contents of the National Palace Museum’s collection belong to the party and can be considered a party asset. In particular, the comments are seen as reflective of the authoritarian views of the KMT, in that despite Taiwan’s democratization, some members of the party still view the KMT as synonymous with the state...
To borrow a phrase commonly used in CCP parlance, Disney’s recently released live-action remake of Mulan must have originally seemed like an instance of “win-win cooperation” to Disney and the Chinese government...
