APF CANADA INSIGHT - Protests, military drills, legislative clashes colour Lai’s first week as

The opposition, and expressed his hopes that Canada, currently a de facto coalition of the Kuomintang (KMT) and chair of the Commission of the Comprehensive and Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), has tried to ram through Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership legislation that would constrict presidential power, (CPTPP), would support Taiwan’s application to join hamstringing Lai's ability t. [...] Led by assertive chord on Taiwan’s sovereignty, referring lawmakers from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, to Beijing as "China,” a term that Tsai avoided in the delegation advocated for deeper co-operation with favour of “the other side of the Strait” or “the Beijing Taiwan. [...] This included calls for trilateral security talks authorities.” Lai also omitted any reference to the with the U. [...] S., support for Taiwan's membership in the "1992 Consensus," an understanding between Beijing World Health Organization, and backing its bid to join and the then-ruling KMT that there is only one China, the CPTPP. [...] The opposition has so far ignored the public Tensions boiled over on May 17, when a brawl erupted pushback, fast-tracking its preferred legislative in the chamber after the opposition tried to bypass procedures and advancing other controversial bills standard review procedures to push through a reform for a second reading.