Last week's drama would appear to strengthen the hand of the ruling DPP government, which has been leading in independent opinion polls for the election. Taiwan's president and vice president aredirectly elected, serve one term of four years and may be re-elected for one additional term. ...
China's Taiwan affairs office has characterized the self-ruled island's election as a choice between "peace and war, prosperity and decline." The election comes as China has escalated military activity in the Taiwan Strait andother nearby watersas Beijing presses its sovereignty claims over a...
Early results are coming in for the high-stakes presidential election on the island of Taiwan. ABC News' Britt Clennett joins from Taipei. 1 year ago Taiwan’s voters: 'Nobody wants war, nobody wants to fight' ABC News’ Britt Clennett is in Taiwan as voters ready to head to the poll...
public opinion polls consistently show a substantial majority of Taiwan people supports maintaining Taiwan's status quo for the foreseeable future; advocates of Taiwan independence oppose the stand that the island will eventually unify with mainland China; goals of the Taiwan independence movement include...
。In the 2020 parliamentary election, a total of 47 female candidates, more than 40% of the total, were elected, making Taiwan the country with the highest percentage of female lawmakers in Asia. But Women in politics still face obstacles ─ the media focusing more on a female candidate's ...
election results: Legislative Yuan - percent of vote by party - KMT 53.5%, DPP 38.2%, NPSU 2.4%, PFP 0.3%, others 1.6%, independents 4%; seats by party - KMT 81, DPP 27, NPSU 3, PFP 1, independent 1; note - following the 2008 elections, several rounds of byelections were held...
A man rides past a bus with a poster of Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) presidential candidate Ko Wen-je running for the Taiwanese presidential election in Xiangshan District, southwest Hsinchu City, Taiwan, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying) ...
For Tony Chen, a 74-year-old retiree who voted in Taipei in the hour before the polls closed, the election boiled down to a choice between communism and democracy. "I hope democracy wins," he said. He added that more Taiwanese were open to China's model of governance decades ago...
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-the chairman of taiwan's top financial regulator said his agency has contingency plans for any possible outcome of the u.s. presidential election, regardless of whether it is donald trump or kamala harris who prevails. "we definitely have plans in place," jin-lung peng, the ch...