While there is plenty of daylight between the DPP and KMT, the two parties have converged on remarkably similar positions with regards to national sovereignty.
It’s Chiang’s first time attending the annual forum, which landed his predecessor (and current presidential hopeful) Ko Wen-je in controversy at times.
Both Ko Wen-je and Hou Yu-ih have endorsed resurrecting the controversial Cross-Strait Services Trade Agreement, the subject of mass protests back in 2014.