How Taiwan fell prey to the baying wolves of China – and Japan

In this year of consequential elections, first off the blocks was Taiwan. Shortly before the January 13 vote, Chinese president Xi Jinping and his Taiwanese counterpart Tsai Ing-wen reminded the world, in their New Year addresses, what was at stake. Xi expressed his determination to see “all Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait… bound by a common sense of purpose”; Tsai insisted that Taiwan was an independent country whose future should be decided democratically, rather than by a widely-ex

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