Taiwan Tati Cultural and Educational Foundation

As a mid-sized nation, Taiwan has its normal share of issues, challenges and troubles. However, recent affairs have once again demonstrated that is not all; Taiwan has the additional challenge of gaining and maintaining status among other nations; and herein lies the rub for its citizens.

China, of course, continually tries to block Taiwan from direct interaction with other nations. And albeit primarily for economic gain, those nations play along with China’s efforts. As a result, they find themselves forced to jump through a different set of hoops in order to include Taiwan in their trade and travel. It is a strange game and one that has gone on for decades.

Taiwan’s domestic politics are getting more trivial as seen from the outside. This is good news and it reveals that Taiwan is becoming a normal nation in many aspects. Taiwan’s domestic politics are concerned with topics as in other nations, including same-sex marriage, pension reforms and labor laws.

The Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) self-inflicted election loss and internal problems have diminished the voices calling for unification with China. It has also significantly diminished the forces creating democratic problems that we have seen over the past eight years of the KMT government. In other words, the KMT contributed to the unfortunate, non-trivial politics.