Always
Secret police agents and KMT operatives maintain a presence within schools, workplaces, neighborhoods, and most private organizations. These official agents of repression often collaborate with organized crime groups and freelance vigilantes to enforce KMT power. They remain a powerful force on the island.
Taiwan
They are still essentially a one party system with many characteristics of a police state.
I am not Tom and I would just as soon you do your own research and draw your own conclusions. I am sure you can find information to hold them up as a paragon of democracy as long as that promotes your peculiar agenda.
File this away for the time you want to argue an opposite view. You never know when Taiwan's dark side might afford you an opportunity to criticise Amerika.