Taiwan’s Presidential Elections are just over a week away. To say a lot is riding on the outcome would be putting it very mildly. The leading candidate in the race is William Lai Ching-te, who is also the current Vice President. William Lai represents the Democratic Progressive Party which is center left when it comes to politics but which supports Taiwanese identity and is generally seen as the party most opposed to “reunification” with mainland China.
And that’s increasingly the only thing that matters in this race. China has been framing this election as a choice between war and peace:
Zhang Zhijun, head of China’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait, a quasi-official body that handles ties with Taiwan, said Taiwanese faced an important choice in the election.
“The two elections coming up in the Taiwan region are important choices between the…
