Lai Ching-te, the frontrunner for Taiwan's presidency, named on Monday Taipei's former envoy to the United States as his running mate in January's election, a high-profile diplomat well known in Washington but who Beijing denounces as a separatist.
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A political row over the title of this year’s National Day event has as much to do with the history of Taiwan’s political parties as their approaches to the cross-strait status quo.