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Taiwan’s main agricultural exports to China over the past three years — those for which China takes more than 90 percent of Taiwan’s exports — include areca nuts (commonly known as betel nuts), wax apples, atemoyas, pineapples, grapefruit and oranges, figures published by the Council of Agriculture showed. Among these, more than 95 percent of Taiwan’s pineapple exports go to China, putting pineapples in the top spot among these “big six” China-bound agricultural exports in terms of quantity and value. Evidently, China’s decision to target Taiwanese pineapples was a calculated...

Sean Lien (連勝文), vice chairman of the National Policy Foundation, which is affiliated with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), yesterday said that he would “seriously consider” running for KMT chairman in an election that is expected to take place in July. Lien, the son of former vice president and former KMT chairman Lien Chan (連戰), was the KMT’s Taipei mayoral candidate in 2014. He lost to Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲), who ran as an independent and was backed by the Democratic Progressive Party. Asked in a radio interview yesterday whether he would run for KMT chairma...

Jaw Shaw-kong walked into a trap By Chin Heng-wei 金恒煒 Broadcasting Corp of China chairman Jaw Shaw-kong (趙少康), who has rejoined the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) after nearly three decades, has said that he wants to be the KMT’s chairman and presidential candidate. Former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) said that Jaw has got it wrong from the start and risks losing everything. The KMT seems unwilling to amend its requirement that only people who have been a party member for at least one year can stand for election as chairperson. Furthermore, KMT Chairman Johnny Chiang...

Taipei, Feb. 24 (CNA) Sharing the stage with Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲), chairman of the Taiwan People's Party (TPP) during a Kuomintang (KMT)-organized forum does not mean that the two opposition parties will join forces for next year's local elections, KMT Chairman Johnny Chiang (江啟臣) said Wednesday.

EDITORIAL: KMT’s leadership problem The time when the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) had a wealth of strong contenders for leadership is long gone. Two decades ago, the party’s internal structure was still rigidly hierarchical, with prominent figures promised their time at the apex of the power structure. Signs of internal fracture were seen as early as the early 1990s, when a rising star in the party, then-KMT legislator Jaw Shaw-kong (趙少康), started resisting the party’s plans for him. Jaw in 1993 cofounded the more overtly pro-unification New Party. KMT unity and hierarchical d...