About Politics In Taiwan It is said that Taiwanese people are keen on politics, especially when the election comes, everyone discuss the candidates he or she supports, and even more volunteer for them.You can see that Taiwanese society is inundated with a large amount of call-in shows where there are always some so-called experts give passionate but not so practical commentary on any kinds of events of politics in Taiwan. However, it is true that they also play a pivotal role in monitoring the authorities sometimes. It is really a double-edged sword for our society. There are two main political parties and several less significant smaller parties in Taiwan. The most key ones are KMT and DPP. KMT once lost its power then became the opposition during the past eight years but it won the election last year so that it came back to rule the country now. Nowadays, the leader of KMT, Mr. Ma Yin-jiou,is also the President of Taiwan but I think his role is a bit different from the President of the United States as he, as a matter of fact, doesn’t have to be responsible for all the policies the government made while we also have a “secretary of Executive Yuan” who is assigned by the President and more like the Prime Minister of a constitutional monarchy. Having said that. the President still has a great influence on politics so that it became a weird political structure that the President is elected by the people and partially responsible for policies but can hardly be blamed actually whereas the secretary of Executive Yuan has to dismiss the Cabinet. Most of representatives in Taiwan do not have strong political belief but only care about how to serve local people and how to get more votes in the next election;therefore some candidates would easily change his political identity to pursue a chance to be nominated. Furthermore, one more feature of Taiwanese politics is that the demarcation between different political belief is not so obvious. It is easy to find a socialist politician in a right-wing-like party in Taiwan. What’s more, the reason that people decided which party to support is just according to the party’s position about independence of Taiwan. Taiwan’s situation is a debatable issue in Taiwan since that being independent or getting reunion with mainland China are definitely world-apart ideas. Some people still believe that Taiwan should and will finally become a part of China in the coming future while also a large number of people regard it as a fable. In my opinion, Taiwan has been separated from mainland China for hundreds of years. The culture and the way people live has diverged hugely. You can easily tell the difference between people from both areas. Owing to that, I think it has become more and more impossible to force people in Taiwan to choose reunion or not.The more appropriate way to solve the dilemma is to respect the people’s wish and promote the cultural communication and interaction between mainland China and Taiwan. --

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