It is quite often assumed that post-democratization, the KMT has become a “normal” political party, analogous to any other party functioning in a two-party political system. This is hardly so...
Even if it may be that Tsai’s victory in the present seems all but inevitable, Tsai faces certain uphill challenges once president. Such challenges ultimately stem from international perceptions of the first DPP presidency under Chen Shui-Bian. The DPP is still seen as a dangerous troublemaker that threatens to disrupt cross-strait relations on the basis of its ideological pro-independence fanaticism on the basis of Chen Shui-Bian’s presidency...
It is probably already clear that Eric Chu will not be the next president of Taiwan. Thus, rather than fret about the possibility of a Chu presidency which will not come to be, we might concern ourselves with why exactly Eric Chu is running in the present...
There seems to exist not only a troubling disconnect from, but also an outright misreading of the situation of the Xi-Ma meeting by foreign governments and media organizations...
Evaluations of the Xi-Ma meeting roughly falls into two camps. The first camp are those who insist that the Xi-Ma meeting does not mean very much and those who attribute greater importance to it...
The world may be sucked into the narrative of peaceful reconciliation on the basis of Xi and Ma’s statements during the meeting as reported on by international media...