Taiwan's ruling-era party-assets fight has flipped in the KMT's favor after the government's asset committee lost three court cases, and the KMT is now accusing the committee of attacking the courts instead of accepting defeat.

• Taiwan's Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee lost final rulings on three big KMT properties: the old KMT headquarters, the National Development Institute land, and the Da Xiao Building.
• Committee head Lin Feng-jeng slammed the courts for adding a new test — that assets only count as "ill-gotten" if the party got them for free or far below fair value — saying it guts the party-assets law.
• The Supreme Administrative Court hit back, saying its view has been stable for years and telling the committee to stop using political language to pressure judges.
• The KMT says the committee simply failed to prove its case, and that the DPP's "transitional justice" has turned into political score-settling that puts politics above the law.
• KMT chair Cheng Li-wun says recovered assets will go first to paying off party debts and staff pensions, with the rest donated to charity.

Outlook: Expect more clashes between the DPP government's asset committee and the courts, with the KMT pushing to reclaim more seized property under the same legal standard.