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Former KMT Legislator Faces Charges Over Chinese Election Interference

Brian Hioe
Former KMT legislator Chang Hsien-yao faces charges of violating the Anti-Infiltration Act and Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and Recall Act, in accepting instructions from the Chinese government to interfere with the 2024 presidential elections. Chang traveled to China several times in 2023 as part of receiving instruction, meeting with individuals such as Taiwan Affairs Office director Song Tao, current Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference chair Yeh Yu-shan, and CCP chief ideologist Wang Huning, who has taken a more proactive role in Taiwan matters for the CPP in recent years...
EnglishFebruary 2025Politics5 min read

Voter Fraud On KMT-Led Referendums Proves A Complex Challenge To Tsai Administration

Brian Hioe
Recent dilemmas faced by the Central Election Commission point again to the challenges of holding a political referendum in Taiwan. Namely, in response to the issue that the KMT seems to have forged a large number of signatures for a referendum against a petition to gradually to phase out thermal power plants that the party has been pushing for, the commission has decided to allow the referendum to pass, but to possibly impose criminal penalties on the KMT for forging signatures...
EnglishOctober 2018Politics7 min read