Kuomintang

Kuomintang
中國國民黨
Zhōngguó Guómíndǎng
Chungkuo Kuomintang
Other nameChinese Nationalist Party[1]
AbbreviationKMT
ChairmanEric Chu
Secretary-GeneralJustin Huang
Founded10 October 1919 (1919-10-10)
Shanghai French Concession
Preceded by
HeadquartersNo. 232–234, Sec. 2, Bade Rd., Zhongshan District, Taipei City 104, Taiwan[2]
NewspaperCentral Daily News
Think tankNational Policy Foundation
Youth wingKuomintang Youth League
Three Principles of the People Youth League (1938–1947)
Education wingInstitute of Revolutionary Practice
Military wingNational Revolutionary Army (1925–1947)
Paramilitary wingBlue Shirts Society (1932–1938)[3]
Overseas wingOverseas branches
Membership (2021)Increase 370,711[4][needs update]
Ideology
Political positionCentre-right[5] to right-wing[6]
Historical:
Big tent[7][8]
National affiliationPan-Blue Coalition[9]
Regional affiliationAsia Pacific Democrat Union
International affiliation
Colours  Blue
Anthem"Three Principles of the People"
Legislative Yuan
52 / 113
Municipal mayors
4 / 6
Magistrates/mayors
10 / 16
Councillors
367 / 910
Township/city mayors
83 / 204
Party flag
Website
www.kmt.org.tw
Kuomintang
"Kuomintang (Guómíndǎng)" in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese中國國民黨
Simplified Chinese中国国民党
Literal meaningChinese Nationals' Party
Abbreviation
Traditional Chinese國民黨
Simplified Chinese国民党
Literal meaningNationals' Party
Tibetan name
Tibetanཀྲུང་གོའི་གོ་མིན་ཏང
Zhuang name
ZhuangCunghgoz Gozminzdangj
Mongolian name
Mongolian CyrillicДундадын (Хятадын) Гоминдан (Хувьсгалт Нам)
Mongolian scriptᠳᠤᠮᠳᠠᠳᠤ ᠶᠢᠨ
(ᠬᠢᠲᠠᠳ ᠤᠨ)
ᠭᠣᠮᠢᠨᠳᠠᠩ
(ᠬᠤᠪᠢᠰᠬᠠᠯᠲᠤ ᠨᠠᠮ)
Uyghur name
Uyghurجۇڭگو گومىنداڭ
Manchu name
Manchu scriptᠵᡠᠩᡬᠣ ᡳ
ᡬᠣᠮᡳᠨᡩᠠᠩ
RomanizationJungg'o-i G'omindang

The Kuomintang (KMT),[I] also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD),[11] the Nationalist Party of China (NPC)[12] or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP),[1] is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially based on the Chinese mainland and then in Taiwan since 1949. The KMT is a centre-right to right-wing party and the largest in the Pan-Blue Coalition. Its primary rival is the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and its allies in the Pan-Green Coalition. As of 2024, the KMT is the largest single party in the Legislative Yuan. The current chairman is Eric Chu.

The party originated as the Revive China Society, founded by Sun Yat-sen in 1894 in Honolulu. The party underwent reorganization before and after the 1911 Xinhai Revolution, which resulted in the collapse of the Qing dynasty and establishment of the Provisional Republic Government, with Sun as the first president. In 1919, Sun re-established the party under the name "Kuomintang" in the Shanghai French Concession. From 1926 to 1928, the KMT under Chiang Kai-shek successfully led the Northern Expedition against regional warlords and unified the fragmented nation. KMT was the sole ruling party in China during the Republican Era from 1928 to 1949, when most of the Chinese mainland was under its control. The party retreated to Taiwan in December 1949, following its defeat in the Chinese Civil War.

From 1949 to 1987, the KMT ruled Taiwan as an authoritarian one-party state after the February 28 incident. During this period, martial law was in effect and civil liberties were curtailed as part of its anti-communism efforts, with the period known as the White Terror. The party oversaw Taiwan's economic development, but experienced diplomatic setbacks, including the ROC losing its United Nations seat and most countries including, its ally the US, switching diplomatic recognition to the CCP-led People's Republic of China (PRC) in the 1970s. In the late 1980s, Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek's son, lifted martial law and the ban on opposition parties. His successor Lee Teng-hui continued democratic reforms and was re-elected in 1996 through a direct presidential election, the first time in the ROC history. The 2000 presidential election ended 72 years of KMT's dominance in the ROC. The KMT reclaimed power from 2008 to 2016, with the landslide victory of Ma Ying-jeou in the 2008 presidential election, whose presidency significantly loosened restrictions on economic and cultural exchanges with the People's Republic of China. The KMT lost the presidency and its legislative majority in the 2016 election.

The KMT is a member of the International Democracy Union. The party's guiding ideology is the Three Principles of the People, advocated by Sun Yat-sen and historically organized on a basis of democratic centralism, a principle conceived by revolutionary Vladimir Lenin that entailed open discussion of policy on the condition of unity among party members in upholding agreed decisions. The KMT opposes de jure Taiwan independence, Chinese unification under the "one country, two systems" framework, and non-peaceful means to resolve the cross-strait disputes. Originally placing high priority on reclaiming the Chinese mainland through Project National Glory, the KMT now favors a closer relation with the PRC and seeks to maintain Taiwan's status quo under the Constitution of the Republic of China. The party accepts the 1992 Consensus, which defines both sides of the Taiwan Strait as "one China", but maintains its ambiguity to different interpretations.

  1. ^ a b "Taiwan – The World Factbook". www.cia.gov. Archived from the original on 9 January 2021. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Kuomintang Official Website". Kuomintang. Archived from the original on 3 July 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2011.
  3. ^ Wakeman, Frederic (2003). "Ideological Rivalries: The Blue Shirts and the "CC" Clique". In Wakeman, Frederic (ed.). Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service. University of California Press. pp. 98–109. doi:10.1525/california/9780520234079.003.0009. ISBN 978-0-520-23407-9.
  4. ^ "朱立倫當選國民黨主席!熱戰21天 奪8.5萬票力壓張亞中勝出". The Storm Media. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
  5. ^
  6. ^
  7. ^ Congress, United States (19 April 1947). "Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress". U.S. Government Printing Office. Archived from the original on 14 April 2023. Retrieved 19 April 2021 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ Laws, United States Congress Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security (19 April 1970). "The Amerasia Papers: A Clue to the Catastrophe of China". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
  9. ^ M. Troy Burnett, ed. (2020). Nationalism Today: Extreme Political Movements around the World [2 volumes]. ABC-CLIO. p. 201. ISBN 978-1-4408-5000-4. Archived from the original on 14 April 2023. Retrieved 2 July 2022. The center-right Pan-Blue Coalition, led by the KMT, maintains that the ROC is the sole legitimate government for all of China (including Taiwan) and that the aim of the government should be the eventual reunification of the mainland ...
  10. ^ "Members". IDU. Archived from the original on 16 July 2015.
  11. ^ "Brill's Encyclopedia of China". referenceworks.brillonline.com. 10 November 2008. Archived from the original on 26 November 2021. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  12. ^ "Wishing China's Communist Party a happy birthday". 28 June 2021. Archived from the original on 7 July 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2022.


Cite error: There are <ref group=upper-roman> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=upper-roman}} template (see the help page).


© MMXXIII Rich X Search. We shall prevail. All rights reserved. Rich X Search