KMT

Bill for Legislative Assistant Subsidies Accused of Allowing for Corruption

Brian Hioe
New legislation advanced by Chen Yu-chen of the KMT was accused earlier this month of making it easier for legislators to embezzle government subsidies. After public backlash, it is uncertain where the bill currently sits, with the KMT legislative caucus suggesting that it does not have plans to discuss the bill and would suspend it until there was further discussion of it to achieve consensus, but Chen stating that she would not withdraw the bill...
December 2025EnglishPolitics6 min read

What Does Political Tension After Post-Typhoon Ragasa Reconstruction Reflect?

Brian Hioe
Video of Guangfu Township residents protesting a meeting held by KMT legislative caucus leader Fu Kun-chi attracted a great deal of attention online in late October. This was particularly the case, seeing as Hualien County Council Speaker Chang Chun, a resident of Guangfu, burst into the meeting and kicked Fu’s table...
EnglishEnvironmentalFeaturedIndigenousNovember 2025PoliticsRaceSocial Movements4 min read

Comments by New KMT Chair Justify Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine as Defensive in Nature

Brian Hioe
Comments by newly elected KMT party chair Cheng Li-wun have led to outrage, in an unusual case of the KMT foraying into the matter of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In an interview with German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle, Cheng defended Russian President Vladimir Putin as a democratically elected leader, rather than a dictator. Cheng claimed that Russia had been a democracy for many years after the transition away from the Soviet Union...
Cross StraitEnglishInternationalNovember 2025Politics5 min read

Ruptures and Splits: Challenges to Recall Group Solidarity

Aleksandrs Gross
Thousands of strangers island-wide worked together with remarkable efficiency so that the Great Recall Movement would succeed. Despite its failure to recall any of the targeted politicians from office, the Great Recall Movement holds lessons for how to rapidly mobilize civil society in response to impending threats to Taiwan’s democracy...
EnglishNovember 2025Self-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements12 min read

Pan-Blue Camp Criticized Over African Swine Fever Outbreak

Brian Hioe
The African Swine Fever has entered Taiwan, with cases confirmed after inspections of dead pigs at a farm in Taichung. The Taiwanese government has stated that it will report the cases to the World Organization for Animal Health, as well as trading partners. The Taiwanese government has, likewise, stated that it is willing to provide information to China, seeking to take the high moral ground when China has sometimes been criticized as refusing to share information with Taiwan or other countries over disease outbreaks...
EnglishOctober 2025Politics5 min read