Thirty-five years ago today, on February 11, 1990 (January 16, 1990), the Taiwan Kuomintang was openly divided into two factions - the "mainstream" and the "non-mainstream". On February 11, 1990, the Taiwan Kuomintang was openly divided into two factions - the "mainstream" and the "non-mainstream". After Chiang Ching-kuo's death in 1988, the political struggle between the mainstream and the non-mainstream of the Chinese Kuomintang gradually began. In 1990, the National Assembly elected the president on March 21 and the vice president the next day. This election was regarded as the successor election after Chiang Ching-kuo's death, which affected Taiwan's political development, so it attracted special attention. Therefore, the internal struggle between the "mainstream" and "non-mainstream" of the ruling Kuomintang during the election process also affected the subsequent distribution of power. In the early 1990s, there was a dispute within the Kuomintang between the "mainstream school" led by Li Denghui and Soong Chuyu and the "non-mainstream school" represented by Lin Yanggang, Jiang Weiguo, Hao Baocun and Chen Xian. The "mainstream school" has mastered huge social and administrative resources. In cross-strait relations, the mainstream school advocates "abstinence from haste and patience", while the non-mainstream school advocates opening up; in the positioning of the "country", the mainstream school advocates "Taiwan, Peng and Jinma are a community with a shared future and a sovereign and independent Republic of China", while the non-mainstream school believes that "the sovereignty of the Republic of China covers the mainland, Taiwan and Outer Mongolia". After years of intra-party power disputes, in March 1996, Li Denghui won more than 50% of the votes in the election and was elected as the first democratically elected "president". As a result, the public opinion base of the "President of the Republic of China" only came from the "Taiwan, Peng, Jinma area", and the "Republic of China" was almost equated with Taiwan. At this point, the non-mainstream faction was completely defeated. At that time, the Chinese Communist Party called Li Denghui's approach "independent Taiwan", which was regarded as a more hypocritical separatist act than the "Taiwan independence" of the "Republic of Taiwan" advocated by the extremists of the Democratic Progressive Party.