Newly elected KMT chair Cheng Li-wun continues to make headlines with controversial headlines and actions. It has been a mere ten days since Cheng took office as KMT chair, having won as a dark horse candidate. And yet Cheng continues to be embroiled in scandals...
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...
The TPP is caught in a dilemma regarding a provision in the party charter that its legislators would rotate after two-year terms. The party previously pledged in the course of electioneering that the party would, unlike other political parties in the Taiwanese legislature, swap out its slate of legislators for other members of its party list after two years...
Former president Ma Ying-jeou recently traveled to China to attend the 17th Straits Forum, while streamer Holger Chen traveled to China for a trip that he also framed as being a "peace ambassador". This proves revealing about the dynamics of Chinese United Front activity at present...
Ko Wen-je supporters rallied yesterday at Liberty Plaza in support of the embattled TPP leader. Organizers claimed that 150,000 attended the event, though there are allegations that the crowd count was wildly inflated and closer to 15,000...
Courts agreed to extend the detention of former Taipei mayor and TPP head Ko Wen-je for another two months earlier this week. This means that Ko will spend close to four months detained...
Ko Wen-je of the TPP continues to be racked by scandal. Ko remains in jail after having been jailed last week, with the overturning of his release without bail. The severity of Ko’s imprisonment is higher than previous arrests, during which he was mostly questioned by prosecutors. Ko has been sent to a prison in Tucheng and is to be treated as any other prisoner would be...
