Taiwan's opposition parties have blocked national security bills from even reaching committee nearly 1,300 times, which ruling-party lawmakers call a gift to Beijing.

• Fifteen DPP lawmakers have proposed bills that would force legislators, officials, and retired military officers to register trips to China.
• The opposition KMT and TPP have killed those bills 1,297 times in procedural votes, blocking them before any debate.
• KMT caucus leader Fu Kun-chi and other KMT lawmakers have met China's Taiwan Affairs Office six times in recent years, then returned home and voted the bills down.
• One bill amending the rules on cross-strait travel holds the record: blocked 154 times.
• A separate bill would fine or briefly detain people who spread hate speech, terrorism, or Beijing-backed messaging denying Taiwan's sovereignty in public places; it has been blocked up to 23 times.

Outlook: With the opposition controlling the legislature's agenda, these security bills look stuck, and the fight will likely spill into the next election campaign.