The KMT announced late last month that its primary process to decide its presidential candidate for 2024 elections would not take place as an open primary, but through a decision by the party’s standing committee...
Former Taichung legislator Yen Kuan-heng, who is seeking to run as the KMT’s candidate in 2024 once again, was released on bail earlier this week after he and his wife, Chen Li-ling, were taken in for questioning by prosecutors. Yen was released on 10 million NT bail, while Chen was released on 5 million NT bail...
Former president Ma Ying-jeou of the KMT set out for a twelve-day trip to China on Monday. This proves Ma’s first trip to China, though Ma previously met with Chinese president Xi Jinping in Singapore in November 2015...
Controversy has broken out regarding the KMT’s election strategy planning committee, with internal dissent from younger KMT members against the inclusion of Hualien legislator Fu Kun-chi and former Tainan city council speaker Li Chuan-jiao. As a result, the election strategy planning committee has since been dissolved...
A graft case in Yunlin proves the latest high-profile corruption case in Taiwanese politics. 27 were questioned and 21 locations were searched by prosecutors last week as part of the investigation. The investigation centers around allegations that politicians were paid off by wpd Taiwan Energy Company Limited in order to clear the way for the development of a wind farm...
The possibility of the US establishing an arms stockpile in Taiwan under the provisions of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act has been increasingly discussed in Taiwan. In particular, proponents of such measures and opponents of such measures often divide between the pan-Blue and pan-Green camps...
Speculation is on the rise regarding who the KMT intends to field for its next presidential candidate. All indications are that there will be significant in-fighting in the KMT on this matter...
Controversy over the General Mobilization Act has led the Ministry of Defense to drop planned amendments, particularly following a wave of criticism from the pan-Blue camp. The Ministry of Defense now states that it will revise the act with further input, before it takes any action...
The DPP claimed victory in the Nantou legislative by-election over the weekend, with a victory by Frida Tsai over Lin Ming-chen of the KMT. Nantou is traditionally considered pan-Blue territory, as a result of which this is the first time that the DPP has won the legislative seat since the reorganization of the Legislative Yuan in 2008 to have 113 single-member seats. The by-election was to fill the seat vacated by preceding legislator Hsu Shu-hua of the KMT after her victory in the race for Miaoli county magistrate in the November 2022 nine-in-one elections...
On the 76th anniversary of the 228 Massacre, commemorations were held to memorialize the event, traditionally viewed as the start of the decades-long White Terror that followed. This includes many events held annually, such as the Gongsheng Music Festival–the indie rock festival held on Ketagalan Boulevard organized by civil society groups–as well as commemorations by the government. Nevertheless, the anniversary of the 228 Massacre should point to how the pan-Blue camp in Taiwan has generally sought to avoid reckoning with its authoritarian past...
