Chinese Nationalist Party Archives

KMT Attempts to Rebrand Social Media Aesthetic

·February 18, 2021·3 min read

Over the past two months, one has seen efforts by the KMT to rebrand their social media aesthetic. This would hardly be the first time in memory that the KMT has attempted to rebrand aesthetically Read More

Bad Taiwan Takes: The KMT Attempts to Depict Itself as “Hawkish” on China

English Life

·October 24, 2023·4 min read

A recent article on the Brookings Institution titled “From dove to hawk: KMT’s transformation and the quest for new guardrails in cross-Strait relations”, by Dennis Lu Chung Weng, proves a strange exercise in the KMT’s attempts to depict itself in a positive light to the US. Seeing as the article appeared in the same timeframe as an article by former Sunflower Movement student leader Lin Fei-fan, this seems to be the Brookings Institution’s attempt to present the KMT’s viewpoint Read More

The KMT Enters the Metaverse…With Chiang Kai-shek NFTs

English Life

·January 18, 2022·3 min read

The latest of the KMT’s desperate attempts to appeal to people proves a funny one–Chiang Kai-Shek NFTs. More specifically, a recent initiative of the KMT to try and raise funds for the party has been turning a decorative saber owned by Chiang Kai-shek into an NFT Read More

Perhaps the Confusion is the Point: China’s Strategic Ambiguity in Drills

English Life

·April 13, 2023·3 min read

China continues to present mixed signals after the end of the three days of live-fire drills that it announced on Saturday Read More

Aesthetics and Politics in 2022 Campaigning

Art English

·November 25, 2022·4 min read

This year's election continued much of the same aesthetic tropes as previous elections. As with past years, it was the DPP that focused on aesthetics that could outreach to young people, and maintained the modernist aesthetic that has characterized pan-Green campaign advertising since the Tsai administration took power. While the KMT has significantly modernized its aesthetic in recent years, it is still the DPP that proved the more experimental in election advertising Read More

Why Would Jaw Shaw-kong Urge China to Deny Reports of Pressure on Mayday?

English Life Music

·December 29, 2023·3 min read

A Reuters report stating that Taiwanese band Mayday was pressured by Chinese authorities, citing an anonymous source, has become an object of political contestation in Taiwan Read More

The KMT Does Not Know How to Wear Pants

English Life

·September 28, 2021·3 min read

The jokes started in 2018 after legislator Apollo Chen and then-chair Wu Den-yih appeared in a publicity photo together, awkwardly posing with their fists. If this wasn’t bad enough their pants went all the way above their waists, in a grandfatherly fashion. The image sparked a seemingly endless number of memes Read More

Terry Gou Stokes 2024 Speculation, Claiming to Have Approval of Not Only Sea Goddess but War God

English Life

·March 3, 2023·3 min read

FoxConn founder Terry Gou is at it again. After having announced his 2020 presidential bid with the claim that Mazu, Taiwan’s patron sea goddess, came to him in a dream, Gou claimed earlier in the month that Mazu and war god Guanyu had expressed approval of another presidential run by him. Gou claimed this after visiting temples over the Lunar New Year to ask the gods about his potential run Read More

The Cultural Politics of Medigen

English Life

·November 9, 2021·4 min read

In retrospect, it was probably inevitable that Taiwan’s domestically developed and manufactured vaccine, Medigen, would encounter difficulties in public reception Read More

Terry Gou and the Flying Apsara Chihuahua Happiness Society

English Life

·October 15, 2021·5 min read

Animal memes increasingly seem to be an integral part of Taiwanese politics Read More

Murder, Corruption, and Plagiarism: An Election Cycle Characterized by Scandal

English Life

·November 23, 2022·4 min read

The present election cycle has been, if nothing else, characterized by a great degree of political scandal. Indeed, as a consequence, many races have boiled down to the personalities running for office, rather than their policies. To this extent, both DPP and KMT have sought to leverage on the scandals of the other camp Read More

When Gangster Politics Collides with Political Realignment

English Life

·August 17, 2023·3 min read

Political streamer and Internet celebrity Holger Chen raised eyebrows earlier this week by accusing the DPP of being behind a shooting incident in August 2020 in which he was shot by a gunman Read More