Taiwan's Supreme Administrative Court has confirmed that the China Youth Corps is an affiliate organisation of the Kuomintang, freezing NT$5.61 billion in assets — a major blow to the KMT, and a victory for the recovery of ill-gotten party assets.

• The Supreme Administrative Court dismissed the China Youth Corps' appeal, finalising the case with no further avenue for reversal.
• The Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee designated the China Youth Corps a KMT affiliate organisation in 2018 and froze its NT$5.61 billion in assets.
• The KMT's Legislative Yuan caucus said the judiciary is dead, accusing the courts of serving as a rubber stamp for the ruling party.
• The KMT caucus stressed that the China Youth Corps has served Taiwan's young people across party lines for decades and that its assets have been forcibly seized.

Outlook: Proceedings to dispose of the assets are expected to formally begin, and the political confrontation between the KMT and the DPP over party assets and judicial impartiality is set to intensify.