showjackyang

Actually no, KMT was at war with CPC. By unification, KMT meant (notice the past tense here) taking out CPC and rule mainland themselves.

This position has changed 180 degrees in recent decades. The unification now KMT is promoting is essentially just give up and let CPC take over.

Notice KMT is a foreign political party that originates from mainland China.

Taiwanese people never had a say in that (Taiwanese social elites were slaughtered by KMT) before DPP became a real political party that's born and raised in Taiwan.

Ma Yingjiu's statement was to maintain KMT's legitimacy as a party in Taiwan, that is, through a country named ROC.

However, for Taiwanese. Our country is called Taiwan. And that's how we recognise ourselves long before 1911.

well... populist can exist in all political spectrum and entities, as long as it's a popular opinion that feed on fabricated or ambiguous information.

Well... I really don't watch those and clarifying facts is always important. So here you go:

This is the GDP for Taiwan is recent years, clearly an ascending trend: https://tradingeconomics.com/taiwan/gdp

As for political achievements, things like (1)having a female president (2)openly supports LGBTQ rights (3)Taiwan's recognition from other like-minded democratic counties has never been stronger since 1979. If these are not political achievements, I don't know what is.

As for 22k, low income for young generation is a real (global) issue, which DPP is fighting hard to solve. Having a pro-China, conservation populist figure like Gou is only going the worsen the problem of distribution of wealth.

being a Taiwanese, I feel (2) and (3) are actually the perception people have from exposure to China-originated fake news that intents to obscure current Taiwanese government's efforts.

No doubt about (1)

Actually PRC is very pro-populism. It's an easy way to manipulate the public. False information combines with some provoking words, you get Chinese communists' means of control.

This should be an useful reference: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/04/ta...

Facts are, geographically it's entirely separate. Taiwan does not even intersect with China's convex-hull. (not that this matters)

Politically, Taiwan's de-facto sovereignty is always an internationally recognized fact.

And I do believe this has been an international consensus for years (except for China and [Winnie the pooh](https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-40627855) of course)

Well... IMO "unification" is the wrong term, "invasion" is what China is actually doing.

As a Taiwanese, I disagree completely. (1) Taiwan is not in China, geographically and politically . (2) KMT has already surrendered

As Taiwanese, from what I observed, given the level of populism that's going on in the country, the chance of him being elected next year is highly probable. This is a very very very serious threat to Taiwan's effort to counter China's invasive actions.

Also even though Mazu is super big in Taiwan, Taiwanese are generally seeing this only as a political declaration. (Religion in Taiwan is more of a spiritual guidance than an actual superior being that dictates people lives.)

Interestingly, a lot of companies listed in China are actually Taiwanese companies having their manufacture processes in China. If certain company have locations in both countries, I think it's very likely a Taiwanese company.