It is election time in China again. Or at least it is in Taiwan, the self-governing island that Beijing claims as an inalienable part of the People’s Republic. Though Taiwan’s presidential poll is taking place in a small, somewhat forgotten, island of 23m people, the result is of intense concern to the world’s two most important powers, the US and China. For both, who becomes president of Taiwan is probably more important than who is president of France.
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