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The ball and chain of the KMT assets

Taipei Times Editorial

The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) is the world’s wealthiest political party. Having money is no sin, but the KMT’s wealth stems from assets seized from the departing Japanese colonial government, money siphoned from government coffers during an era when the KMT ruled as a one-party state and from confiscated private property. The KMT has long faced criticism over issue.

Democracy and Taiwan’s identity

Jerome Keating

In less than a month, Taiwanese are to head to the polls to democratically elect both a new president and new members of the Legislative Yuan. As they prepare to make the important choice of who is to rule their nation over the next four years, there are questions they must ask. What makes their nation a nation? What brings the people together?

KMT urged to stop asset sales

Taipei Times

A woman holds a child at an election campaign event in support of Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen in Taoyuan yesterday.
Photo: CNA

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday called on the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) to stop selling its controversial party assets, questioning whether it is doing so to avoid supervision from the next legislature.

KMT ouster only way to carry out reform

Lee Min-yung 李敏勇

The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) is likely to experience a full collapse in the presidential and legislative elections next month. After KMT Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) replaced Deputy Legislative Speaker Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱) as the party’s presidential candidate, the KMT has moved away from the Huang Fu Hsing (黃復興) military veterans’ chapter toward the local political factions that it previously despised. However, the effort is probably in vain, because Taiwanese are thirsting for change.

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