The KMT is moving its National Day flag-raising ceremony out of Taipei for the first time, a symbolic push to broaden the party's appeal in the south ahead of local elections.

• The Double Ten flag-raising will be held in a military-veteran community in Kaohsiung's Zuoying district instead of Taipei.
• New KMT chair Cheng Li-wun will attend in person, alongside former legislative speaker Wang Jin-pyng and the party's Kaohsiung mayoral candidate Ko Chih-en.
• The party frames Kaohsiung as a symbol of Taiwan's mixed ethnic communities coming together.
• Separately, the KMT is protesting a final court ruling that the China Youth Corps is a party-affiliated body, which keeps billions in assets frozen.
• The party blames Premier Cho Jung-tai for refusing to countersign its passed amendment to the party-assets law, which it says shaped the ruling.

Outlook: Expect the KMT to keep campaigning in southern Taiwan while fighting the asset rulings as a political grievance into the local election season.