By Michael DanielsenA combination of the good old days and modern populism can be a superb cocktail for winning an election. The problem for the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) populist presidential candidate, Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜), is that there are no good old days. A look at the KMT’s recent past exposes its political and economic failures. It would also be a challenge for the international community to separate Chinese attempts to promote Taiwan as Chinese from the KMT’s own policies. Taiwan shall live forward and understand itself looking backward — not like the KMT, which prefers to live in the past.

Source: Taipei Times December 06, 2019 15:56 UTC