KMT Calls National Conference Amid Childlessness Crisis; DPP Responds

Taiwan is confronting a wave of declining birth rates, and the resulting demographic imbalance has become a national security crisis. Nationalist Party legislator Li Yanxiu recently urged the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government to break the existing framework and proactively convene a cross‑party, civil‑society‑participated “National Strategy Conference on Responding to the Low‑Birth‑Rate Challenge.” The proposal quickly attracted attention in the Legislative Yuan, highlighting divergent thinking and pacing between the ruling and opposition