The history is that KMT lost the civil war and fled to Taiwan, but they were never a separatist party. Rather they considered themselves to be the legitimate government of all China. Today, KMT obviously gave up on that ambition and they simply want Taiwan to be repatriated into China on favourable terms. They actually came very close to an agreement with the mainland back in 2014. The deal that was proposed was that Taiwan would stay as an autonomous province with its own military, and would have a representative in the CPC. US response was to create the sunflower movement that put DPP in power who promptly tanked any prospects of a deal.
DPP has been ruling ever since, but it looks like the war in Ukraine sobered up a lot of people and DPP performed disastrously in recent elections as a result. It looks like people in Taiwan aren’t keen on fighting a proxy war with China to the last man the way Ukrainians did.
Thanks for the info on this. It is nothing but tragic that real progress on re-integration that comes from the people choosing it is wrecked time and time again.
The history is that KMT lost the civil war and fled to Taiwan, but they were never a separatist party. Rather they considered themselves to be the legitimate government of all China. Today, KMT obviously gave up on that ambition and they simply want Taiwan to be repatriated into China on favourable terms. They actually came very close to an agreement with the mainland back in 2014. The deal that was proposed was that Taiwan would stay as an autonomous province with its own military, and would have a representative in the CPC. US response was to create the sunflower movement that put DPP in power who promptly tanked any prospects of a deal.
DPP has been ruling ever since, but it looks like the war in Ukraine sobered up a lot of people and DPP performed disastrously in recent elections as a result. It looks like people in Taiwan aren’t keen on fighting a proxy war with China to the last man the way Ukrainians did.
Thanks for the info on this. It is nothing but tragic that real progress on re-integration that comes from the people choosing it is wrecked time and time again.
Indeed