As China Threatens Military Action, Taiwan’s Opposition Becomes Schizophrenic

Reuters
October 10, 2020 Topic: Security Region: Asia Tags: TaiwanChinaNational SecurityTsai Ing-wenDemocracy

As China Threatens Military Action, Taiwan’s Opposition Becomes Schizophrenic

As Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen weathered pressure from China and succeeded in securing re-election in January 2020 with a record-breaking number of votes, KMT stalwarts accused the DPP administration of risking war in the Taiwan Strait, leaning too far toward the United States, and eroding Taiwan’s democracy.

J. Michael Cole is a Taipei-based senior fellow with the Global Taiwan Institute in Washington, DC the Macdonald-Laurier Institute in Ottawa, Canada, and the Taiwan Studies Programme at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is a former analyst with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service in Ottawa. His latest book, Insidious Power: How China Undermines Global Democracy (co-edited with Dr. Hsu Szu-chien), was published in July this year.

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