Bridging Taiwan’s Blue-Green Divide: The Twentieth Anniversary of the 2005 Chen-Soong Meeting
After eight years of control over the executive and a legislative majority, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) retained the presidency in Taiwan’s January 2024 general elections but lost its hold on the Legislative Yuan. This outcome, driven in no small part by growing public fatigue with persistent political polarisation, has only been followed by heightened political turbulence. Against this backdrop, revisiting a rare moment of bipartisanship from two decades ago offers insights into the possibilities – and limits – of political reconciliation in Taiwan.
This paper was originally published by Taiwan Insight, University of Nottingham and the full text can be found on their website.
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