Taiwan Brief: The critical KMT chair race, part 1

This KMT chair race is hugely consequential, and will impact the future of not just the party, but Taiwan’s democracy. In part 1, we look at why it’s important, and the already declared candidates.
Taiwan News: Radio veterans podcast about Taiwan’s martial law era
The invasive onslaught
Taiwan Gazette: Meet Boss Evan -the man behind Taiwan’s zombie content farms
Taiwan Headlines, July 23: KMT’s vaccine politics

3 KMT-run counties and KMT want to buy vaccines, government says no. What’s curious is who is behind it, and who isn’t. KMT also suing Health Minister and CECC head Chen and head of the FDA over local vaccine approval.
Taiwan Headlines, July 22: Love from Lithuania, Canada and US

Taiwan is to establish a “Taiwanese Representative Office in Lithuania” and CCP flips out. Halifax defence and security forum to meet in Taipei. US military plane lands with package for new AIT head Oudkirk, and CCP flips out again.
Taiwan Headlines, July 19: TPP closes in on KMT in polling

Neither the DPP nor the CEC are doing the KMT any favours. Polling shows DPP and KMT continue to lose support, but lost supporters aren’t to ‘no party’, but other parties–and TPP is now less than 3% behind the KMT.
Taipei Times: Ian Easton On Taiwan: Escaping China’s ballistic missile trap
National Review: Why Taiwan Matters
The irrelevance of strategic ambiguity