Taiwan's opposition KMT is accusing the ruling DPP of moving a national Indigenous museum from New Taipei to Kaohsiung for political reasons, a dispute that pits the two parties against each other over who really speaks for Indigenous communities.

• The museum was approved in 2016 for the Sanying area of New Taipei, then relocated to Kaohsiung after the DPP took power.
• KMT lawmakers say DPP legislators froze the original plan just before the handover of power and asked for it to be reconsidered once they were in charge.
• The DPP says a national museum meant to last a century could not be sited just because land was easy to get, and that culture, ties to Indigenous homelands, and long-term operating costs had to be weighed.
• The DPP notes KMT lawmakers also filed their own motion in 2016 asking for the site to be reassessed.
• Eight counties and cities competed in the redo, and an expert panel picked Kaohsiung's Chengcing Lake, which offered far more usable land than the New Taipei site.

Outlook: Construction in Kaohsiung has already broken ground, so the argument is likely to stay a political one rather than change the location.