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SECURITY: Taiwan does not have a mechanism to verify or certify drones and related products, and could entrust a third party for this purpose, Wu Tsung-tsong saidBy Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
With less than a month to go before voters in Taiwan choose their local city and county leaders on Nov. 26, the country's two main political parties are looking to hold or gain ground while keeping a new upstart party at bay.
On May 18, the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) leadership shocked party members by nominating former premier Simon Chang (張善政) as its Taoyuan mayoral candidate. In doing so, KMT Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) caused another political firestorm, again triggering tension within the party.
Chu has been pulling this kind of stunt with alarming regularity, in a sign of the terminal decline of the Chinese regime in exile.
This particular maneuver consisted of three layers:
First, Chu’s appointment of the former premier who was also on the KMT’s presidential ticket in 2020 as former Kaohsiung mayor Han Kuo-yu’s (韓國瑜) running mate as the
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) dropped a bombshell announcement on Wednesday last week: The party is nominating former premier Simon Chang (張善政) as its candidate for Taoyuan mayor.
The nomination might have come as a surprise to the public, but it completely ambushed the KMT local factions in Taoyuan. Chang was not considered as, or even rumored to be, a potential candidate right up to the announcement.
The list of candidates expected for nomination were KMT legislators Lu Yu-ling (呂玉玲), Lu Ming-che (魯明哲) and Wan Mei-ling (萬美玲), and former KMT Taipei city councilor Lo Chih-chiang (羅智強).
Lo had expressed his