[kccqzy]

The election doesn't tell you much. The young voters continue to prefer independence, while the shrinking older population prefers eventual unification with China. As more young people become eligible to vote, the independence crowd simply gets more votes.

[perennate]

KMT = economy party, they talk about "eventual reunification" in public statements to appease PRC so that cross-strait relations can remain good, which they think is crucial for the economy (since PRC is Taiwan's biggest trading partner). Pretty much nobody actually cares about reunification in and of itself, and KMT's current stance is that it won't happen until PRC becomes a democracy.

DPP = in addition to defying PRC's bullying about Taiwan government's statements regarding independence, DPP believes it is crucial to expand trade with other countries to reduce economic reliance on PRC.

So I would say there isn't really a huge generational divide regarding actually supporting re-unification, but certainly younger generation may not be as concerned about the potential economic ramifications of defying PRC.

[mytailorisrich]

It's not that the KMT wants to appease the PRC. Of course the KMT wishes for eventual reunification: they were kicked out of the rest of China by the communists but that does not mean that they should give up hope off regime change on the mainland.