The Kuomintang (also called the Chinese Nationalist Party) wants to improve relations without surrendering Taiwan’s independence. Its opponent, the Democratic Progressive Party, wants to strike a more autonomous posture, though whether it would ever really go for anything more substantial than tweaking China’s nose is doubtful.
但是，尽管台湾政治自然而然地被台湾与大陆的关系所主导，但中国和台湾之间深刻的经济关系没有与之匹配的外交关系。国民党希望在不牺牲台湾独立性的情况下改善关系。其反对派民进党希望采取更加自主的姿态，尽管这一姿态是否会达到触及中国底线的程度还未可知。