implosion, draft sb in, unelectable, outspokenness, self-destructing

School Girl Drafted by Pro Baseball Team
FOXNews - USA16: Student Eri Yoshida, 16, strikes a pose after being drafted by an independent league's pro team during a news conference in Osaka, Japan. ...

The Wall Street Journal

Kuomintang has picked a presidential candidate who is so pro-Beijing she’s unelectable. At the 11th hour, party elders are trying to dump Hung Hsiu-chu, dubbed Taiwan’s Sarah Palin for her outspokenness and polarizing views, and draft in Eric Chu, the party chairman and dynamic mayor of New Taipei City, who had earlier declined to run.

The Implosion of Beijing’s Taiwan Strategy

Beijing’s strategy of patience with Taiwan lies in tatters as the Kuomintang, its former enemy and now its best hope for advancing its goal of reunification, is self-destructing.

WSJ.COM|由 ANDREW BROWNE 上傳

draft

verb

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1Prepare a preliminary version of (a document):I drafted a letter of resignation

2Select (a person or group of people) and bring them somewhere for a certain purpose:riot police were drafted in to break up the blockade

draft sb in phrasal verb [M] UK
to bring someone somewhere to do a particular job:
Every Christmas thousands of people are drafted in to help with the post.