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KUOMINTANG

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 12, 2023
Dueling trips lay bare Taiwan of tomorrow and yesterday
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen’s U.S. 'stopover' was forward-looking, while her predecessor Ma Ying-jeou focused on the past in his trip to China.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 7, 2023
Ma Ying-jeou’s historic trip: Can former Taiwan president help ease cross-strait tensions?
Despite being the first former Taiwanese president to set foot on mainland soil, the impact of this landmark trip on cross-strait relationships might be limited.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 28, 2023
'We are all Chinese,' former Taiwan president says while visiting China
Taiwan's ruling party has asked why Ma Ying-jeou is visiting China just after Beijing took away diplomatic ally Honduras on Sunday, leaving the island with ties to just 13 countries.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 4, 2023
Taiwan wary of China charm offensive risks ahead of presidential vote
As Taipei and Beijing gradually resume travel links halted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Taiwan security officials expect China to relaunch an influence campaign.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Feb 8, 2023
Xi woos Taiwan opposition ahead of pivotal presidential vote
China's leader appears to be recalibrating his hard-line approach to Taiwan in the year before an election that his government’s preferred negotiating partner has a shot at winning.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 5, 2023
What are the prospects for a cross-strait detente?
Taiwan and China both seem keen to dial down tensions while the Beijing-friendly Kuomintang could well win the island’s 2024 presidential election.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 14, 2022
What happens in Taiwan doesn’t stay in Taiwan
Taiwan is too important to Japan and the global economy to ignore its tensions with China.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 22, 2022
Taiwan's Kuomintang finds new star in great grandson of Chinese nationalist leader
Chiang Wan-an was a teenager when his father sat him down to tell him he is the great-grandson of Chiang Kai-shek, the Chinese nationalist leader who fought Mao Zedong's Communists forces.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 28, 2022
Taiwan opposition defends 'brave' China outreach after controversial visit
Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council said the visit was wrong and that opposition parties should recognize that China is 'the instigator of the destruction of peace in the Taiwan Strait.'
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 26, 2021
China's Xi warns of 'grim' Taiwan situation in letter to opposition
Taiwan's Kuomintang elected as their leader on Saturday former New Taipei City Mayor Eric Chu, who said he would rekindle stalled high-level contacts with China's ruling Communist Party.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 14, 2021
Taiwan’s opposition party tries to rebrand itself back into relevance
The Beijing-friendly party, which long held an iron grip on the island, is struggling to stay relevant at a time when many residents are wary of China's ambitions.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 30, 2020
Lee Teng-hui, who forged Taiwan's path to democracy, dies at 97
Lee set Taiwan on a path of solidifying its separate status from the mainland and earned the wrath of the Chinese Communist Party.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 14, 2020
More fighting as Taiwan opposition again occupies parliament
Taiwan's main opposition party again occupied parliament on Tuesday to protest against the nomination of a close aide to the president to a top-level watchdog, after fighting with ruling party lawmakers to get into the building.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 29, 2020
Taiwan opposition occupies parliament to protest government 'tyranny'
Fighting erupted in Taiwan's parliament Monday as lawmakers from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) broke through barricades erected by the main opposition Kuomintang (KMT), who had occupied it to protest against government "tyranny."
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 7, 2020
Taiwan opposition seeks distance from China after top official is recalled
Taiwan's main opposition party moved to distance itself from China after one of its most senior officials lost a highly charged recall election, as attitudes harden toward Beijing on the democratic island claimed by China.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 1, 2020
Taiwan recall vote stirs acrimony and brings new problems for Kuomintang
A recall vote for a high-profile mayor is stirring political acrimony in Taiwan, with accusations of voter intimidation and official interference, and could bring new problems for the main opposition party, already reeling from losing January elections.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 25, 2019
China meddling allegations roil Taiwan election campaign
New allegations Beijing tried to infiltrate Taiwan's democracy roiled election campaigning on the island this weekend, with President Tsai Ing-wen's main opponent vowing to drop out if he had taken money from China's Communist Party.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Aug 13, 2016
A new Taiwan dreams of transitional justice
The newly elected Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government of President Tsai Ing-wen has hit the ground running in a flurry of initiatives that highlight how powerfully the past resonates in contemporary Taiwan. Only in office since late May, she has positioned Taiwan on the progressive side of history and put it in line with other liberal democracies where it is assumed that the path to the future requires addressing unresolved historical grievances. In Taiwan, the fractious politics of transitional justice implicates the Kuomintang (KMT), the dominant party throughout most of the post-World War II era that is now in opposition.
JAPAN / History
Feb 17, 2016
Taiwan court orders compensation for slaying of Japanese man in 1947
A court in Taiwan ruled Wednesday in favor of a Japanese man seeking recognition that his father died in the so-called 228 Incident, a postwar period of brutal repression by Taiwanese authorities.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jan 11, 2014
A new-year Asian reading list to savor and inspire
At this time of year, many newspapers publish such lengthy lists of must-read books that it's daunting to even imagine them all piled up gathering dust on the bedside table. So let me narrow the field by sharing some amazing titles about or from Asia that I have enjoyed over the past year.
When will Japan intervene to support the yen?
Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki has reiterated the government's readiness to take an appropriate action as the yen continues to slide against the U.S. dollar.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Raising kids in Japan as a single parent? It takes a village.
Making things work as a foreign, single mother in Japan isn't easy, but these tips and tricks can help you through the hardest parts.
Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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