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The Reassessment of the Asset of the Taiwan Nationalist Political Party

With the landslide victory in the presidential and legislator election by the Taiwan Democratic Progress Party (DPP) at 2016 January 16th, it is the first time in Taiwan democratic evolution whereby the opposition party have a majority in the legislator. One of the hottest topic tabled by several members of legislator is to re-assess the party wealth which was ill-obtained during the Chiang Kai-Sheh dictatorship era, between 1949 and 1996. During that totalitarian period, Taiwan was under the rule of Nationalist Party known as KMT. Chiang Kai-Sheh was the leader of KMT which was defeated by the communist China in the 1945-1949 China civil war. At 1996 the then KMT chairman and president of Taiwan Lee Deng Hui offered the for the first time for Taiwan citizen to elect the president and he was labelled as the Father of Taiwan Democracy by the Time magazine. Although the first election not as a fair competition as one would expect, 2000 election was won by the DPP and 2008 was rotated back to KMT but during 1996-2015 20 years, KMT always has the majority in legislator therefore whatever the motion against the interest of KMT was overruled. The 2016 landslide DDP won not only the president but also become the majority of the legislator.

During 1949-1996, KMT rules with the old concept 'dynasty' and KMT considered party treasury and country treasury are two sides of the same coin, exactly like the mainland Communist China now in 2016. Thus KMT has amassed an incredible amount of asset and all of them are considered as ill-gotten by most people of Taiwan. That was the driving force that caused landslide swift of the voters.

This page is created with the intention to systematically list of all the illegal obtained asset of KMT in Taiwan.

Reference:

(1) http://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Policy-Politics/KMT-s-assets-come-under-fresh-scrutiny :

= KMT's assets come under fresh scrutiny By JENS KASTNER, Contributing writer =

(2) http://www.asiasentinel.com/politics/taiwans-kuomintang-seeks-to-hide-its-assets/ :

= Taiwan’s Kuomintang Seeks to Hide its Assets =

(3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_the_Kuomintang :

= List of assets owned by the Kuomintang =

(4) http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21635279-taiwans-kmt-suffers-crushing-defeat-local-elections-blow-kmt :

A blow to the KMT
= Taiwan’s KMT suffers a crushing defeat in local elections =