Former KMT majority speaker Wang Jinpyng recently announced a new proposal for cross-strait formula earlier this month. The new proposal suggests that while neither government on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are subordinate to each other, they share the same sovereignty...
The KMT’s annual national congress was held earlier this week. This year’s congress, however, did not mark any significant developments or shifts in the party’s stances, seeing as this year is not an election year. As such, there were no new major proposals that were made during the congress...
The Chinese government has rejected a call by the Lai administration to establish a new cross-strait framework. The move by the Lai administration is significant...
Comments by former president Ma Ying-jeou at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center largely continued the KMT’s familiar lines of attack on the DPP. Still, it is significant to what extent the KMT now leans into views of the CCP through a rose-tinted lens...
President Lai Ching-te surprised with a speech over the weekend at a National Day concert held at the Taipei Dome. The concert is the opening event for National Day celebrations in Taiwan...
The KMT has experienced further controversy regarding the 1992 Consensus, following a recent interview by party chair Eric Chu with Deutsche Welle, as well as an article published by the CPPCC Daily, a Chinese state-run media outlet. It may not be surprising to note that both incidents have been leveraged on by the pan-Green camp for political ammunition, particularly given that the KMT’s unwillingness to swerve away from the 1992 Consensus continues to be a major weakness for the party...
In an unusual incident, Chinese state-run media has lashed out at KMT legislators Lin Wei-chou and Charles Chen as secretly being advocates of Taiwanese independence. In particular, it was claimed that Lin and Chen were part of a “covert” faction of Taiwanese independence advocates, distinguished from individuals openly supportive of Taiwanese independence...
Former president Ma Ying-jeou was again in the news earlier this week for his criticisms of the Tsai administration. Namely, Ma called for a return to the “original 1992 Consensus”, lashing out at Tsai for distancing herself from the notion...
Former president Ma Ying-jeou has continued to lash out at current president Tsai Ing-wen, accusing Tsai of undoing his efforts aimed at achieving peace across the Taiwan Straits. In particular, Ma’s latest attack on Tsai took place in the context of a conference held by the Ma Ying-jeou Foundation in Taipei marking the fifth anniversary of the 2015 Ma-Xi meeting earlier this month...
The KMT surprised yesterday by proposing two resolutions that passed unanimously in the Legislative Yuan, in a rare show of bipartisanship in Taiwanese electoral politics...
