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It is critical for Taiwan to understand where recall campaign came from avoid over-correcting in way that damages its hard-won democracy

KMT and TPP should engage in organizational strengthening to provide Taiwan with strong cohesive and loyal opposition rather than dismantling or restricting this tool

Recalls provide critical safety valve in presidential systems which otherwise divorce political support from institutional authority

Raymond Kuo is director of RAND’s Taiwan Policy Initiative and senior political scientist at RAND

He is expert in international security international order and East Asia

This points to need for strong organization empowered leadership and comprehensive policy-development processes

Neither KMT nor TPP approach this archetype

Party Internationals can facilitate exchange with ideologically like-minded parties and NGOs

Party-affiliated and independent foundations can provide similar support as well as broadening society-to-society contacts

Strong parties must cultivate and train generations of political leaders

Democracy is also intimately linked to Taiwanese sense of national identity one of strongest predictors of whether country can survive conquest attempt

Vibrancy and responsiveness of Taiwan’s democracy enhance its resistance to Chinese and other foreign influence and disinformation campaigns

Taiwan's party system has already shown worrying cracks

Healthy democracies require strong center-right parties to offer loyal opposition and serve as bulwark against extremism

Strong parties have deep and often formal links with members and broader society

Other countries can help Taiwan’s opposition parties break pattern