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Taiwan Election: The Strait is Wide but the Emperor is Still too Close

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Philip Bowring
Jan 18, 2016
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The sweeping victory of Tsai Ing-wen and the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan’s Jan. 16 elections was far more than just a rejection of a divided Kuomintang and an indictment of the recent performance of the luckless outgoing President Ma Ying-jeou.

The election of Taiwan's first female president was a reaction against the aggressive nationalism an…

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