Can Taiwan’s KMT yield to changing voter attitudes without offending Beijing?

As one of the youngest candidates for Taiwan’s biggest opposition party the Kuomintang (KMT), Alfred Lin entered his first election race with little expectation of success.

Lin, 33, is a rising star in the island’s biggest opposition party, but his opponent was the formidable Ho Hsin-chun – a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator known as the “queen of votes” for her performance four years ago.