September 27, 2022
Taiwan politics proper
No, given that people may want to engage productively with Taiwanese politics on a productive, state-to-state basis, it is completely true that the political system there does not make as much sense to Western eyes, and sense. But it's actually fair to understand, although it exists on the spectrum of what we, here in America, might call political economy rather than politics "proper".
The two main parties there basically represent two ends of a spectrum about political economy. On one end, the KMT, Kuomintang, or the Nationalist Party in English translation, is on the more mercantilist end of the spectrum. The DPP, or Democratic People's Progressive Party, Minjingdang, is far more toward the physiocratic end of the political spectrum.
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