Taiwan cracks down on Uber, offers rewards for turning in drivers

[jaichind]

Taxi drivers in ROC are quite politically powerful.  In the 1990s they clearly tilted Green and was critical to the DPP grassroots organization.  They have become less partisan last decade but are still very powerful especially under a DPP regime.  The DPP regime are acting on behalf of a section of its partisan coalition and to rope in the taxi driver vote in 2018 and 2020.