Rumours of cracks in the blue-white cooperation on the Taipei City Council have prompted the Taiwan People's Party to step in and douse the flames, a stabilising signal for the year-end election campaign.

• Reports claimed the Kuomintang would only let Chiang Wan-an attend joint rallies and would not campaign for individual TPP candidates, something newcomers in the white camp described as "charity".
• TPP Taipei city councillor Chen Yu-cheng denied the claim, calling it groundless and saying certain people were exploiting the opening in an attempt to damage blue-white cooperation.
• He criticised the motives behind such anonymous leaks, saying the aim was to shake the foundations of cooperation between the two parties.
• He compared the relationship between the two parties to "a mirror and a light": Chiang Wan-an is the light and the TPP is the mirror, reflecting both the results of their cooperation and the KMT's internal integration problems.
• Both sides are focused on a joint strategy for 2028, and short-term friction is unlikely to overturn the table.

Outlook: Rumours of blue-white friction may persist ahead of the year-end Taipei city councillor elections, but the two parties will maintain a cooperative posture in public.