Words matter in cross-strait politics. Every phrase is weighed, every omission noticed. So when Kuomintang (KMT) chairwoman Cheng Li-wun described “imperialist forces” as the cause of Taiwan’s separation from the mainland during her visit to China this week, something cracked in Taiwan’s political architecture. Not because the sentiment is new in Beijing’s playbook — it […]The post KMT’s ‘imperialist’ rhetoric shifts Taiwan’s democratic fault line appeared first on Asia Times.