THE DIPLOMAT

Taiwan’s Imperfect Democracy

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By Julian Baum & Gerrit van der Wees

Taiwan’s recent elections were mostly free, but not completely fair. There were built-in advantages for the KMT.

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  1. Except the problem that the pan blue coalition and even the KMT itself rarely agree on everything, their only usual unifying policy agenda is cross-strait relationship, but it's hard to s...
    Yu-Hsing Chen
  2. John Chan wrote: "The KMT won the election with hard work in campaigning and good results in governing..." Wow! What planet do you live on, John? The KMT's "hard work" is like....smearing...
    Rebecah Chung

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