Taiwan's main opposition party the Kuomintang (KMT) stomped home to victory in local elections on Saturday as President Tsai Ing-wen's efforts to frame the vote as being about showing defiance to China's rising bellicosity failed to pay off.
Surprise surprise. Seem like peoples in Taipei don’t want to go to war
KMT is pro some sort of reunification with mainland, but also there's quite a bit of ethnic tension between KMT and everybody else. There's a gulf between chinese people who colonized Taiwan before RoC and after. The latter group is whats at the head of the army and the former taiwanese dictatorship. It makes sense that calling KMT china stans works in national elections.
I am shocked that the party whose leaders have familial connections to fascist collaborators during World War II would suck up to their former colonizers.
It's fascinating to see how the KMT evolved on that position. Originally in the 50s they had this insane notion that they were going to invade the mainland and be able to take the whole thing over.
HOW?
iirc KMT is pro-peaceful reunification with mainland, but they want taipei to become an autonomous region
KMT is pro some sort of reunification with mainland, but also there's quite a bit of ethnic tension between KMT and everybody else. There's a gulf between chinese people who colonized Taiwan before RoC and after. The latter group is whats at the head of the army and the former taiwanese dictatorship. It makes sense that calling KMT china stans works in national elections.
They're both US lapdog, one is crazier than the other and openly want the nationalist Japan to colonize them again.
I am shocked that the party whose leaders have familial connections to fascist collaborators during World War II would suck up to their former colonizers.
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It's fascinating to see how the KMT evolved on that position. Originally in the 50s they had this insane notion that they were going to invade the mainland and be able to take the whole thing over.