Fu Kun-Chi

KMT Calls for Recall of Lai Ching-te At Rally

Brian Hioe
The KMT claimed 250,000 in attendance at a rally against DPP recalls held yesterday on Ketagalan Boulevard. Aerial photographs do not seem to correspond to this claim, but either way, the pan-Blue camp was out in force against the DPP in what was a de facto campaign rally for the pan-Blue camp. Both the KMT and its smaller ally party, the TPP, were present...
April 2025EnglishPoliticsSelf-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements6 min read

KMT’s Infrastructure Bill Last Year Shows the False Nature of Its Claims to Care About Fiscal Balance

Brian Hioe
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...
EnglishJanuary 2025Politics7 min read

Fu Kun-chi’s Infrastructure Legislation Lead to Pushback, Potential Splits

Brian Hioe
The DPP has stated that it will seek a constitutional interpretation against infrastructure bills that the KMT intends to push through with. The bills are primarily advanced under the auspices of KMT legislative caucus convener Fu Kun-chi, who has framed the bills as to benefit his home constituency of Hualien and areas of Taiwan’s east coast that have historically lacked resources compared to urban areas. This takes place in the same timeframe as the Executive Yuan calling for the Legislative Yuan to reconsider the legislative powers that the KMT is hoping to obtain, with the Executive Yuan framing them as unconstitutional, and the DPP also suggesting that it will seek constitutional interpretation...
EnglishJune 2024Politics7 min read