KMT vice presidential candidate Jaw Shaw-kong has come to dominate headlines lately. In particular, Jaw seems to have taken a more proactive role in the KMT’s campaigning than the actual KMT candidate, Hou You-yi...
The vice presidential policy presentation took place on December 22nd. Though the format is not a debate, it is often a de facto debate–compared to the first presidential policy platform presentation a few days earlier, it was still more of a debate. The order was Cynthia Wu of the TPP, Jaw Shaw-kong of the KMT, and Hsiao Bikhim of the DPP...
With less than a month until elections take place in Taiwan, the KMT’s messaging proves to be highly unusual. In particular, the party does not seem to have a coherent strategy, caught between efforts to moderate its message and try to appeal to the hardliners of the deep Blue camp...
Controversy has broken out about the DPP and TPP vice presidential candidates regarding allegations about whether they hold US citizenship. In particular, the DPP is fielding former representative to the US, Hsiao Bikhim, as its vice presidential candidate. On the other hand, the TPP is fielding legislator Cynthia Wu as its vice presidential candidate. The KMT is fielding pan-Blue firebrand and media personality Jaw Shaw-kong as their vice presidential candidate, though he has not become embroiled in any citizenship controversy...
Comments made by former president Ma Ying-jeou over the new year are indicative of the line that the KMT may take going into the upcoming set of elections...
A new resolution passed by the KMT’s Central Standing Committee earlier this month provides an amnesty period, allowing for members that left or were kicked out of the KMT to rejoin before February 17th. This move is part of an initiative by recently elected chair Eric Chu to open the door for old members that have since left the party...
Reports by the Liberty Times, quoting an anonymous source, stated earlier this month that the Chinese government was seeking to train Taiwanese young people as influencers in order to popularize pro-China views...
It proved surprising last week when current KMT chair Johnny Chiang was named to the Time 100 Next 2021 list, a list of up-and-coming leaders named by Time Magazine. That is, the precise question facing Chiang is whether he will be consigned to irrelevance if he loses his reelection bid in the upcoming KMT chair election...
Pan-Blue media personality Jaw Shaw-kong sparked a wave of speculation after publicly applying to rejoin the KMT, with the possible intention of running for party chair...
