Name change not on KMT agenda, chairman says

Taipei Times
Date: Oct 12, 2020
By: Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter

Changing the name of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) is not on its agenda, KMT Chairman Johnny Chiang (江啟臣) said yesterday, after comments by KMT legislative caucus whip Lin Wei-chou (林為洲) prompted discussion of the topic.

In response to media queries, Chiang said a name change is not the focus of the party’s reform efforts at this stage and that the party should instead be concerned with matters pertaining to people’s daily lives.

Chiang’s remarks followed a Facebook post Lin made on Saturday in which he asked whether the word Zhongguo (中國) should be removed from the full name of the KMT.

While the word refers to the Republic of China, it is “easily confused with the People’s Republic of China,” Lin wrote.    [FULL  STORY]