🇹🇼 | "President Lai Ching-te, step down!" – Taiwan's food safety crisis has turned into a political standoff. The Kuomintang (KMT) is on the offensive, rallying hundreds of thousands in Taipei to bring down the DPP government. The rivalry between the KMT and the DPP has shaped Taiwanese politics for decades. The DPP holds to its separatist line, while the KMT wants closer cross-strait ties with the mainland. Leading that effort is KMT Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun, known for her fiery speeches. Cheng won the KMT leadership in 2025 as a dark horse candidate running on a hardline cross-strait platform. In April 2026, she met Xi Jinping in Beijing, the first meeting between KMT and Communist Party leaders in more than a decade.