TAIPEI -- Taiwan's National Day celebrations this week highlighted deep divisions in its political class, as the president and opposition spoke of drastically different identities and visions.
President Lai Ching-te from the Democratic Progressive Party, who took office in May, once again vocally defended Taiwan's sovereignty and a Taiwanese identity, under the polity and constitution of the Republic of China. The main opposition Kuomintang (KMT), meanwhile, pushed its Sino-centric narrative rooted in sovereign claims of the old Chinese revolutionary state, to which they believe Taiwan belongs.
