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my grandfather had a corinthian monopoly before the revolution

the pillar industry supports the firmament of the economy

KMT bad, DPP somewhat worse.

KMT = right wing chinese nationalist

DPP = actively sucks america's cock

"if China invades, destroy all your fab factories" is a DPP thing

A third party called the TPP has recently become electorally viable with elected officials. The TPP doesn't fall into old Taiwanese electoral paradigms (waishengren vs benshengren, status quo vs separatism) and is a vaguely progressive party. But the key point about the party is that it attracts young people, including people who are too young to vote but who will eventually age up towards voting age. The DPP, the comprador separatist party that has roots with Japanese collaborators during WWII, doesn't like this because the DPP was supposed to be the new hip party compared with the KMT that only boomers like.

Here are the results of the 2024 Taiwanese presidential election.. One additional thing to note is that the KMT and TPP almost ran a joint ticket (with Hou Yu-ih as President and Ko Wen-je as Vice President I believe) before the blue-white coalition fell through, meaning the DPP only won because votes were split between the KMT and TPP. Still, the DPP ate shit in the 2024 legislative elections. The KMT has one more seat than the DPP, but it doesn't have a majority. The TPP is essentially the tie-breaker, and they're siding with the KMT.

There's the wide perception that the TPP is completely carried by Ko Wen-je (opponents call the TPP a cult of personality surrounding Ko), which is why the DPP is trying to bust him on corruption charges. This is the context of this protest and previous protests (there was another one earlier that had at least 150000 people but you didn't hear a word of this from Western MSM because they're running defense for the DPP). The DPP is waging lawfare against their political opponents the TPP and the KMT. That previous protest was over the DPP trying to jail Ko in their attempts to sink the TPP while this protest is over the DPP trying to impeach various KMT politicians.

From what I understand, the KMT are actually more moderate than the current ruling party.

BBC filter but in reverse because this is the good capitalist China

From what I've heard, the KMT are weirdly the more moderate and pro peaceful cooperation and commerce with the rest of China party now despite their history, and the DPP are the fully US aligned extreme right party that's more like the old KMT. AFAIK the KMT are still US-aligned nationalists like they always were, but they're less warhawkish and just want the status quo to peacefully continue.

The KMT opposes independence like the DPP wants and they advocate for "cross-Strait dialogue" with China. They're the legacy party that founded the Republic of China. They are lean older and more conservative, whereas the DPP is associated with the youth.