As Taiwan's regional elections approach, Kuomintang candidate Hou Youyi is in a dilemma of approval ratings. However, after 40 days of silence, Guo finally spoke out, giving the KMT a shot in the arm for morale. At this time, the call for the siege of Lai Qingde was getting higher and higher, and the situation was complicated.
According to poll data from the island's elections, although Hou Youyi is still behind the Democratic Progressive Party's candidate Lai Qingde, the gap is very small. This means that the support of Ke Wenzhe and Guo Taiming is crucial to Hou Youyi's election. At present, Ke Wenzhe's support rate is about 22%, and he has basically been decided. Therefore, he needs to consider whether to "waive the insurance". If Guo Taiming returns to the Kuomintang, it will greatly increase Hou Youyi's support rate and is expected to change the election situation.
For the KMT, it has recently received a mixed stream of good and bad news. The good news is that after 40 days of silence, Guo Taiming finally spoke out through Lin Jinjie, the KMT's "representative of the people", and put forward his six-point political proposition. Although Mr. Gou has not yet explicitly expressed support for the KMT and Hou Youyi, he has chosen a KMT figure as his voice, suggesting that his position may be biased in favor of the blue camp.
However, Ke Wenzhe has clearly refused to support the blue camp, but he is also unwilling to "give up the insurance". His actions seem to be "bucking the trend", maintaining his presence and avoiding marginalization through outrageous rhetoric. However, Ko Wenzhe's People's Party is relatively junior and lacks a stable support base, which also makes him have to fight hard to gain attention in the island's elections in order to expand his "political space".
On the issue of reunification, there were differences in the position of the KMT. Hou Youyi promised to restore cross-strait friendship after taking office, but did not explicitly support peaceful reunification. On the contrary, his deputy, Zhao Shaokang, claimed that "now is not the time for cross-strait reunification" and even said that reunification will not occur in the next 100 years. This shows the differences in the position of the Kuomintang on the issue of reunification.
In general, when Taiwan will be able to return to the motherland depends on the outcome of the Sino-US game. Despite the decline in overall strength, the United States is still a superpower and is deeply involved in the island's affairs. Under these circumstances, the mainland has already expressed its determination to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity and has adopted various measures to promote the general trend of reunification.