Taiwan's government is pushing ahead with its reckoning over the authoritarian past even after lawmakers stripped the funding, framing the work as part of the island's defense against Chinese pressure.

• Parliament cut the entire transitional justice budget for the year, worrying rights groups that the work will stall.
• The cabinet responded by publishing last year's results and saying it will find a legal workaround to keep going.
• Almost all secret political files from the martial law era have now been declassified, and 17 sites of past abuses have been marked.
• Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei will be turned into a "democracy education park."
• Victims and families have been paid more than NT$6.6 billion, with counseling centers and formal apologies to teachers and students punished under the old regime.

Outlook: The government says it will keep the program running through existing agencies, but the funding fight with the opposition-controlled legislature is far from over.