Image from Miao Poya’s Facebook. Used with permission. The presidential and parliamentary elections in Taiwan on January 13, 2024, ended with the pro-Taiwan autonomy Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) winning the presidential election. However, it only obtained 46 percent of the seats in the parliament and failed to retain its legislative majority. On the other hand, the Kuomintang (KMT) won 47 percent, and the emerging People’s Party of Taiwan (PPT) won up to 7 percent of the parliamentary seats. The rise of the so-called third party (i.e., political parties other than the longstanding DPP an…