KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan: As Taiwan hurtles toward becoming a "super-aged" society, a new political party has emerged with an unusual and somewhat singular platform: making mahjong great again.

The centuries-old Chinese tile game is popular in Taiwan, especially among the elderly, but thanks to a quirk of legal history from the self-ruling island's martial law era, it inhabits something of a gray space.

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