The KMT has hit out at the Kuma Academy as of late, with continued accusations over the Kuma Academy’s funding. The Kuma Academy is one of, but not the only, Taiwan’s civil defense training organizations...
Taiwanese president Lai Ching-te held a press conference yesterday to warn of Chinese infiltration efforts in Taiwanese society. To this extent, Lai announced new measures from the government aimed at curbing such infiltration...
In an unusual exchange in the legislature yesterday, KMT caucus leader Fu Kun-chi lashed out at TSMC’s plans to invest 100 billion USD in the US. This occurred in the course of an exchange between Fu and Premier Cho Jung-tai, who was giving a report to the legislature, and subsequently questioned by legislators...
The KMT has again called for extending the lifespan of Taiwan’s existing nuclear reactors, citing a poll conducted by the party that found that 73.6% of the public supports such an extension, while this was only opposed by 20.7% of the public...
Taiwan reported record-high tax revenue for 2024, with 3.73 trillion NT in taxes collected. This is a larger windfall than expected, in that there were 497.2 billion NT more in taxes than budgeted for by the government. The extra revenue is due to strong exports, as well as stock gains because of market enthusiasm about artificial intelligence...
In the preceding legislative session, the KMT, TPP, and DPP all proposed to pass legislation against forced organ harvesting. This proves a somewhat unusual move, seeing as during a time characterized by stark partisanship, it has been rare for the pan-Blue and pan-Green camps to come together to support any legislation...
With the budget cuts pushed for by the KMT, it has proven somewhat complicated to note what has actually been cut, and what government services are likely to be affected by the cuts...
With recent wide-ranging budget cuts passed by the KMT, the KMT has sought to defend the cuts as necessary for fiscal security in Taiwan. To this extent, the KMT has claimed that the cuts only amount to 3% of the budget and that such budget-cutting also occurred during the Tsai administration. By contrast, President Lai Ching-te of the DPP has framed the cuts and freezes as amounting to 30% of the available funding. There have never been cuts on this scale in the past twenty years, showing that against the claims of the KMT, such budget-cutting is not normal in the legislature...
