A KMT supporter waves a giant Taiwan's national flag outside of Central Election Commission on November 24, 2023 in Taipei, Taiwan. Annabelle Chih | Getty Images News | Getty Images Taiwan's main opposition parties have filed individual bids to unseat the ruling Democratic Progressive Party as...
DPP's Lai — Taiwan's current vice-president — won more than 40% of the popular vote in Taiwan's eighth presidential election. DPP is the first party to win the presidential office three times in row since direct presidential elections were introduced in 1996. Beijing had framed the electio...
Chinese Fighters, Balloon Cross Taiwan Strait a Month Before Election More Reuters FILE PHOTO: People look across the strait from a lighthouse at the 68-nautical-mile scenic spot, one of mainland China's closest points to the island of Taiwan, on Pingtan Island, Fujian province, China, Apr...
Hours ahead of the polls opening, Washington had warned "it would be unacceptable" for "any" country to interfere in the election. Advertisement Taiwan, a neighboring island China claims as its own, has been a democratic success story since holding its first direct presidential election in 1996,...
FILE PHOTO: Lai Ching-te, Taiwan's vice president and the ruling Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) presidential candidate arrives an election campaign event in Kaohsiung, Taiwan December 22, 2023. REUTERS/Ann Wang/File Photo By Ben Blanchard ...
Propelled by these factors, a quasi-democratic political system evolved in Taiwan after the 1988 death of Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek’s son and successor. Three major political parties have emerged to compete in Taiwan’s first direct presidential election, scheduled for later this month:...
China accused the United States military of “abusing international law” and continuing a pattern of “dangerous provocations” in East Asia Thursday, after a US Navy destroyer made the service’s first transit of the Taiwan Strait of 2024.
But the 2024 Taiwanese presidential election gave it another chance. Wang, who studies social media in Taiwan, traced the platform’s second rise to November of last year, starting with the supporters of Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), often associated with the color green. “Many...
In 2000 the ruling KMT was defeated in the presidential election by the candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), whose base consisted of Fukien Taiwanese. In an election the next year, the DPP won the largest number of seats in Taiwan’s legislature (the Legislative Yuan). While...
Besides, the failure of the Democratic Progressive Party to retain a majority in the 113-seat local legislature has provided us with the necessary context without which the balance of power in the legislature in the post-election period cannot be accurately analyzed. And on Thursday, Han Kuo-yu...