Taiwan Communiqué no. 153, November / December 2015

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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• The Kuomintang's comic opera
  • The ruling party ditches Ms. Hung Hsiu-chu
  • Eric Chu becomes the candidate
  • Mr. Eric Chu is on the wrong track by Gerrit van der Wees


• Election campaign in the final stretch
  • Tsai Ing-wen maintains a strong lead
  • Tsai Ing-wen's foreign policy speech
  • Successful visit to Japan
  • Opening of the DPP campaign headquarters


• National Day celebrations
  • A controversial "Double Ten" heritage
  • Tsai Ing-wen attends and builds bridges
  • President Ma Ying-jeou's speech: out of touch

• "Taiwanization" of the Chinese KMT
  • Ma Ying-jeou: the last of the Mohicans
  • How Ms. Hung hastened the demise of the old KMT
  • What will the new KMT look like?


• Report from Washington
  • Steve Chabot's Six Assurances resolution


• Book Review
  • From Taiwan to the world, a Memoir of Lo Fu-chen By Chen Rou-jin, reviewed by Gerrit van der Wees