Taiwanization

Trends toward greater "Taiwanization" of national identity appear to continue.

He further stated that he believed a Chinese identity and a Taiwanese identity were ultimately incompatible, a notion controversial in the KMT, even among those members who generally supported Taiwanization.

His administration saw a gradual loosening of political controls, a transition towards democracy, and moves toward Taiwanization of the regime.sfn Opponents of the Nationalists were no longer forbidden to hold meetings or publish papers.

In the 1980s, the KMT focused on transforming the government from a single-party system to a multi-party democratic one and embracing " Taiwanization ".

Mother tongue movement Taiwanization developed in the 1990s into a ‘mother tongue movement’ aiming to save, preserve, and develop the local ethnic culture and language of Holo (Taiwanese Hokkien), Hakka, and aborigines.