The winner will have to navigate testy relations with Beijing as well as popular concerns about domestic issues such as housing and employment.
In Taiwan’s election, young voters focus on inflation, wages and war
The U.S. and China loom large over Taiwan's presidential and legislative elections on Jan. 13, but so do domestic bread-and-butter issues.
Taiwan’s Weekend Elections: High Stakes for China, US and the Island Itself
In the runup to Saturday’s vote, China launched a satellite that flew over southern Taiwan, Taiwan issued an air raid alert and China sanctioned several U.S. arms manufacturers for doing business with ...
Taiwan Polls 2024: Amid Cross-Straits Jigsaw, the Impact of US-China Tensions
Lai’s approach to China reflected a sense of confidence, a desire for unity and parity in all dialogue with China, and a will to enhance the very elements China condemns – Taiwan’s democratic ...
Taiwan gears up for high-octane elections tomorrow that will decide future with arch-rival China
China has called the elections a choice between 'war and peace' and has stepped up its coercion through military incursions and trade sanctions. Taiwan's defence ministry on Friday said it detected ...
The US relationship with China faces a test as Taiwan elects a new leader
senior adviser and trustee chair in Chinese business and economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “No one wants to provoke a war, and the current situation is minimally ...
Decoding China: How Beijing wants to sway Taiwan election
Beijing is putting pressure on Taiwan's presidential election with threats of war and trade boycotts, while providing support to the Kuomintang (KMT) political opposition.
Taiwan Votes 2024: As tariff spat with China widens, outcome of presidential election could reshape cross-strait trade
What China does next regarding cross-strait trade hinges on who becomes Taiwan’s next leader, analysts say, especially as each presidential candidate represents a different way forward.
Taiwan’s Mainland Chinese Caught In Cross-strait Tussle
Meeting voters, visiting temples and touring the streets in an open-top truck, Li Zhen-xiu is campaigning hard for Saturday's election in Taiwan, just like hundreds of other candidates.
China and Taiwan: Love and longing across the strait
China's President Xi Jinping has cast the decision at Taiwan's ballot box as a choice between war and peace. Under his leadership, Beijing has taken an ever sharper, firmer and often more aggressive ...
Taiwan’s election explained: What’s at stake, and how will China react?
Taiwan’s eighth democratic presidential election, to be held Saturday, is gearing up to be its most consequential yet: It takes place amid increasingly frequent warnings from China’s strongman leader ...
Elon Musk appears as new vulnerability on Taiwan’s horizon
Former Taiwanese legislator offers his perspective on Elon Musk's Starlink and the business mogul's relationship with China.
The Taiwan that China wants is vanishing
They feel Taiwanese but see no need for Taiwan to declare independence. They want peace with China, they want to do business with it but they have no desire to ever be part of it.
Taiwan can ‘never win’ a war against China, its ex-president says
Ma, Taiwan's president from 2008 to 2016, said it was "too optimistic" to hope Taiwan can hold China off before US forces arrive.
Taiwan elections: Change or continuity on the cards? China and the U.S. keep a close watch
Taiwan's DPP-led government has often accused Beijing of vote interference either by military intimidation or by co-opting Taiwan's business elite due to their economic reliance on China. "Peace is ...
A war over Taiwan would be even more damaging to the US economy than COVID was, Bloomberg forecasts
Taiwan could see 40% shaved off its GDP in the first year of ... "A DPP win may not be exactly business as usual as Beijing is likely to continue viewing Lai as an obstacle towards reunification," ...