Friction has emerged in blue-white cooperation in the Taipei City Council election, working against the Taiwan People's Party's candidates while, for now, benefiting the Kuomintang's Chiang Wan-an.

• The KMT's Taipei branch said Chiang Wan-an will not appear at campaign events for individual TPP city council candidates; figures in the white camp see this as an act of charity.
• Ko Wen-je responded that the real reason is that the Democratic Progressive Party's nominee, Puma Shen, is too weak — so weak that Chiang Wan-an faces no electoral pressure.
• Huang Kuo-chang said Chiang Wan-an has passed word through an intermediary that he will find time for a courtesy call, that the two parties will keep channels of communication open for now, and that the TPP's goal is to win all six Taipei City Council seats it is contesting.
• Ko Wen-je argued that blue-white cooperation should be called party cooperation or coalition government, and that it requires building institutions and a culture, rather than being confined to competition and infighting.
• Chinese spouse Hsu Chun-ying was sentenced to seven years in the first instance for violating the Anti-Infiltration Act; the verdict shows she had contact with Ko Wen-je as early as the beginning of 2023. Ko said he had no recollection of her at the time and criticised the practice of casually painting others as pro-China.

Outlook: Coordination between the blue and white camps in Taipei's city council districts has yet to be settled, and a meeting between Chiang Wan-an and the TPP will determine how far the cooperation can go.