With recent polling by the Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation indicating that the majority of the Taiwanese public is dissatisfied with the government, this would be a sign of the Tsai administration’s failure to maintain the political momentum it rode into power on. However, although this does not absolve Tsai from blame for her political actions either, perhaps this ultimately is due to the characteristics of Taiwan’s democracy as a result of the process of Taiwanese democratization...
Many questions remain to be answered in coming days with the indictment of former president Ma Ying-Jeou on charges over leaks of classified information regarding the 2013 wiretapping of Ker Chien-Ming...
The political struggle between Ma Ying-Jeou and Ker Chien-Ming ultimately returns to the recent nature of Taiwanese democracy and the unstable nature of many of its institutions...
Some claim that the KMT only needs to "localize" to survive its current political crisis. But the truth is that the KMT has already "localized" and this only took the party in an extreme pro-unification direction. We can observe this in the example of Hung Hsiu-Chu herself...
Further splits seem to be emerging in the KMT as of late, with former president Ma Ying-Jeou coming into conflict with current chairperson Hung Hsiu-Chu regarding the "1992 Consensus"...
Recent news that KMT chairperson Hung Hsiu-Chu will be visiting China next month, with a likely meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping to take place, is not surprising...