{"id":47620,"date":"2025-09-06T11:55:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T04:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/kmt-seeks-next-leader-as-taiwans-political-drama-simmers\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T11:55:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T04:55:21","slug":"kmt-seeks-next-leader-as-taiwans-political-drama-simmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/kmt-seeks-next-leader-as-taiwans-political-drama-simmers\/","title":{"rendered":"KMT seeks next leader as Taiwan&#8217;s political drama simmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/politics\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Politics<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Internal race highlights opposition party&#8217;s challenge of calibrating stance on China<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/__origami\/service\/image\/v2\/images\/raw\/https%3A%2F%2Fcms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com%2Fimages%2F0%2F5%2F8%2F1%2F11441850-1-eng-GB%2Fafba0f51c9f1-2024-11-24T100033Z_1631439200_RC2EBBAUEG3K_RTRMADP_3_TAIWAN-POLITICS.JPG?width=780&#038;fit=cover&#038;gravity=faces&#038;dpr=2&#038;quality=medium&#038;source=nar-cms&#038;format=auto\" alt=\"20250905 kmt chu\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"><\/p>\n<p data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Eric Chu, chairman of Taiwan&#8217;s largest opposition party Kuomintang (KMT), makes a speech during celebrations of the party&#8217;s 130th\u00a0anniversary\u00a0in November 2024. He has said he does not plan to run for a third term, although politics watchers are not counting him out. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>THOMPSON CHAU<\/p>\n<div data-dark-mode=\"false\">\n<p><span>September 6, 2025 12:15 JST<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body-preview\" data-article-body data-trackable=\"bodytext\" data-atlas=\"body\">\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\">TAICHUNG, Taiwan &#8212; The Kuomintang (KMT), Taiwan&#8217;s former ruler and now the main opposition party, is turning its focus to an internal chairmanship vote after obliterating a campaign that tried to unseat dozens of its lawmakers in recall elections this summer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics Internal race highlights opposition party&#8217;s challenge of calibrating stance on China Eric Chu, chairman of Taiwan&#8217;s largest opposition party [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tin-tuc-the-gioi-vi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}