Political Chaos Deepens in Taiwan's Congress

Squabbling camps launch competing recalls as instability creates opening for Beijing

By: Jens Kastner

Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan, its 113-member unicameral legislature, is nearing paralysis, at a time when its main protector the United States government in chaos and promises of security growing uncertain as China grows bolder with its reunification demands across the 180-km Taiwan Strait. A total of 44 legislators of Taiwan’s main opposit…