Taiwan's opposition Kuomintang struggles to shake pro-China image

KMT's old guard swats down proposals to drop 'One China'

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Kuomintang's annual conference in Taipei on Sept. 6. © Reuters

RIK GLAUERT, Contributing writer

TAIPEI -- A Facebook post from Taiwan's main opposition party calling on young members to submit videos explaining why they joined for a chance to win dinner with the chairman, 2,000 New Taiwan dollars ($70) and a party T-shirt was met with ridicule online.

Netizens joked that wearing a Kuomintang T-shirt was a punishment rather than a prize, pointing to the party's full name which translates as "The Nationalist Party of China," and asking if it would be accepting entries from neighboring China, which claims Taiwan as part of its own territory and regularly threatens to take it by force.

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