2023年4月20日
Mark O’Neill
EJ Insight
Beijing warns Taiwan people
Vote for the Kuomintang (KMT) candidate in the presidential election in January and you will have peace, dialogue and cross-strait exchanges. Vote for the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate and you may have war. That was apparently the blunt message sent by Beijing to the voters of Taiwan by three days of sweeping military exercises around the island this month and its warm reception to a visit by former KMT President Ma Ying-jeou.
On April 12, the DPP chose Vice-President William Lai Ching-te as its candidate for the election, to succeed Tsai Ing-wen, who has held the post since 2016. The KMT has not chosen its candidate. Front-runner is Hou Yu-ih, Mayor of New Taipei City and a former Director-General of the National Police Agency. ...
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