The old ruling party, the Guomindang (GMD), is interested in closer relations with the no longer socialist Mainland, but it is out of power. The present ruling party, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), is no longer talking about independence, though this had been itsraison d'être in the past.
2022, Jim Mangi, “Korea 1945 to the Present”, inDropping the Atomic Bomb on Hirohito and Hitler: What Might Have Happened If the A-Bomb Had Been Ready Early[2],Pen and Sword Books,→ISBN,→OCLC, page[3]:
The previous year theGMD had defeated the PLA in much of south-eastern Manchuria, capturing Tantung and Tunghua along the border with Korea (Hooten).
