TAIWAN News: Eric Chu wins race for KMT leadership, first time ever with less than 50% vote for party election. Chu has vowed to return the century-old party to power in 2024.
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If US-China conflict escalates, it's going to run through Taiwan and its local politics. A few important dates on Taiwan's political calendar leading up to 2024 election, which is about 10 months ahead of US election cycle.
Dec 18th, 2021 Referendum on 4 issues: nuclear power, the Datan algal reef, US pork imports & future referendum dates. The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is against nuclear, for building on a reef, for US pork, against setting referendum dates on election dates.
If opposition KMT prevails on all four questions, it will strengthen their influence. A poor result for the DPP has the potential not only to cast Tsai as a lame duck but also ripple into the 2022 NIOE and the 2024 presidential and legislative elections.
eastasiaforum.org/2021/08/03/tsa…
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Hahaha, isn't politics Local & Global: "Given the 25% turnout needed for the passage of any referendum, the KMT is looking to achieve concurrent voting to maximize voter turnout in future referendums. The DPP has already squelched an attempt to establish absentee voting."
Nov 2022: NIOE(Nine in One Election), or local executive branch elections. (Municipal Mayors, Municipal Councilors, Chiefs of indigenous districts in municipalities, Councilors of indigenous districts in municipalities, County Magistrates (City Mayors) etc.)
Jan 2024 Pres. election, inauguration May20. Wiki not up to date as Eric Chu KMT leader. Who DPP nominates will be interesting. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Taiw…
As an eternal optimist, I am hoping to visit Taiwan in 2023, which was delayed from 2020. Never been there. The village I grew up in Zhejiang has 6 families separated by 30 years after 1949. Neighbor raised 2 boys alone while husband went to TW, remarried, then reunited in 1980s.
My paternal grandfather's brother, associated with Huang Pu(West Point of Old China). Unlike lower ranked KMT soldier, has choice/stayed in mainland with wife in 1949 and suffered during Cultural Revolution. War for ordinary people is between a rock and a hard place.
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