https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67909071
The Gist: Taiwan has elections in a few days. The Kuomintang Party of Taiwan, the same party that was in a war with Mao in the 40s and their nationalistic leaders held only to Taiwan after 1949 under a Kuomintang dictator Chiang Kai-shek. The Kuomintang started to relax their authoritarian hold on power after the death of Chiang Kai-shek, until they kinda-but-not-exactly lifted the military law in 1987 and eventually had presidential elections in 1996 (which the Kuomintang won).
Since elections started, the KMT has won some and lost some.
Presently, the Democratic Progressive Party is in power for the past 8 years. Their pursuit of a sovereign Taiwan and a different national identity (thinking themselves Taiwanese first, not Chinese) has earned China's anger and China is building up forces around them.
To the present: The KMT, the guys that have been claiming for 50 or so years that they are the real China, the grandkids of people that fought a brutal (very brutal) war against the other China (the big one, the People's Republic of China), now ... want peace. They do want independence but consider themselves Chinese and they don't want to push too hard.
Again: Those are the KMT! The bloody, ruthless KMT that fought against the equally bloody and ruthless CCP in the worst civil war in modern history.
So... reading the article further, I find out that the current version of the KMT is the one more tolerated by China for some reason.
The turn of the KMT from a dictator's political (and military) arm to a kinda-democratic Chinese-nationalistic force and their less-vigorous take on antagonizing China is a big surprise. I don't want to name parties as it would derail the discussion, but think of say ... the UUP suggesting a moderate approach on IRA in the 80s.
That said: Do you guys believe the KMT views peace seriously, or they say that just to get votes and deny their political competition some seats in the parliament?
What do you think will follow another DPP win? Will China keep saber-rattling? Would that change (to the better or to the worse) if KMT won (unlikely)?