US-skepticism in Taiwan

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

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...