Will He...or Won't He? 

* Though the presidential nomination was made official in mid-May, the Kuomintang (KMT) is apprehensive over what former Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou plans to do next.

* There are more than one option available for Gou. The worst-case scenario would be for Gou to team up with former Taipei Mayor Ke Wen-je, the current chairman of the Taiwan People's Party (TPP), on the same ticket. According to most opinion surveys, a Gou-Ke ticket would be the one to beat in the 2024 presidential election.

* Gou is taking a temporary hiatus from the public eye. He has not commented publicly about the KMT primary, and he has declined to answer calls from those concerned with his next step. The expectation is for Gou to stay behind the scenes until he is ready to re-insert himself into the political realm.

* On the other hand, the KMT nominee, Hou You-yi, has not made any progress in opinion polls since the official nomination on May 17. In addition, he has been elusive on sensitive issues like cross-Strait policy toward China. He doesn't seem prepared to accept the "1992 consensus," which is at the core of KMT's China policy. That is one of many policy differences that he has to reconcile with the KMT HQ and its think tank in the coming weeks.