Taiwan’s recent elections were mostly free, but not completely fair. There were built-in advantages for the KMT.
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@Michael Stainton, How do you know that 200,000 votes are not KMT’s loss? USA election only has 30% voters vote, majority of western nations’ voting percentage is less than 50%. In a...
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This piece provides the international reader with a much more comprehensible image of the challenges that the Taiwanese and Taiwan's democracy are facing than other international comments.
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