COMMENTS MADE by former president Ma Ying-jeou over the new year are indicative of the line that the KMT may take going into the upcoming set of elections. Namely, Ma Ying-jeou framed the vote between KMT and DPP as a vote between “war and peace.” Likewise, Ma stressed that Taiwan should resume reestablishing economic relations with China, calling for the resumption of the “three small links.