Kuomintang
Kuomintang, also known as Guomindang or the Nationalist Party, is a political party founded by Sun Yat-sen and others in 1919 as the political successor to the Tongmenghui. The party's core ideology is the Three Principles of the People: nationalism, democracy, and the welfare of the people.
During the early 1920s the KMT formed the First United Front with the Chinese Communist Party, backed
Following the Chinese Civil War, the KMT was defeated by the Communists and retreated to Taiwan in
In cross-strait policy, the KMT generally supports closer economic and cultural ties with mainland China while
Its emblem is the Blue Sky with a White Sun, which also appears on the flag of