KMT must open its eyes to the real enemyBy Huang Yi-sheng 黃義勝Watching news footage of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) officials shaking hands and exchanging pleasantries with their counterparts across the Taiwan Strait, I could not help but feel a profound sense of temporal displacement. From a constitutional perspective, this was an “independence movement” launched within the ROC that successfully split the national territory. For the KMT, it was the agony of a destroyed home and a lost nation. Ironically, one party is a historic enemy who tried to exterminate the KMT; the other is a competitor who inherited its brand and systems. In Taiwan’s internal political arena, the KMT fights the DPP tooth and nail, treating them as irreconcilable enemies.

Source: Taipei Times February 08, 2026 17:22 UTC