A Chinese influencer will have her residency permit revoked for online videos supportive of the forcible military annexation of Taiwan by China. The case will prove a litmus test on the limits of free speech in Taiwan, not only with regards to pro-unification views, but also the rights of Chinese spouses in Taiwan...
Former Nantou county magistrate Lee Chao-ching, a former KMT member, was sentenced on charges totaling 656 years and four months in jail earlier this month. It has been confirmed by the Supreme Court that Lee, who is already in jail, will serve 21 years and two months in prison. Lee is 74 years old, meaning that Lee may spend the rest of his life in prison...
Former KMT majority speaker Wang Jinpyng recently announced a new proposal for cross-strait formula earlier this month. The new proposal suggests that while neither government on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are subordinate to each other, they share the same sovereignty...
A recent visit to Taiwan by a Chinese student delegation organized by the Ma Ying-jeou Foundation has drawn controversy. The delegation includes several Chinese athletes, such as table tennis player Ma Long, a participant in the Olympics. Namely, the delegation has been protested on a number of occasions. Otherwise, statements by the students provoked public outrage...
The KMT’s annual national congress was held earlier this week. This year’s congress, however, did not mark any significant developments or shifts in the party’s stances, seeing as this year is not an election year. As such, there were no new major proposals that were made during the congress...
Comments by former president Ma Ying-jeou at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center largely continued the KMT’s familiar lines of attack on the DPP. Still, it is significant to what extent the KMT now leans into views of the CCP through a rose-tinted lens...
Former president Ma Ying-jeou has again lashed out at current president Lai Ching-te. Comments by Ma were made at a speech in Thailand, during the 27th “Zhongshan Lecture” held by the Chinese Association of Thailand...
Former president Ma Ying-jeou hit out at current president Lai Ching-te last week with an 800-character essay on Facebook hitting out at the idea that relations between Taiwan and China are those between two countries...
Chinese president Xi Jinping met with former Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou today. This was the first time that Xi and Ma have met since 2015, when Ma was still president. The two met in Singapore in 2015, while today’s meeting took place in Beijing at the Great Hall of the People...
