TAIWANESE HISTORY AND POLITICS Fractious party puts Tsai in a pickle*

Just months since she took power, President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen’s position looks unsteady. One cannot grasp Taiwan’s current politics without a firm understanding of Tsai’s Democratic Progressive Party and how it came into existence as a counter to the Kuomintang. In this issue, Jeffry Babb outlines the political background and next time will look at Tsai’s performance so far.


President Tsai Ing-wen recently
apologised to the island’s Aborig…

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