Dissatisfaction with low pay, expensive housing, lack of opportunity, local issues have never been the ruling party s strength. it is why they lost the last round of local elections. but partparty s two term presid put taiwan on the global stage like never before. and ran on a continuity ticket. translator: we are telling the international community that between democracy and authoritarianism, we still stand on the side of democracy. reporter: and he says safe guard taiwan from china s ongoing intimidation and threats. within the last couple of hours, we received confirmation from the american institute of taiwan which is essentially the u.s. de facto embassy here that group of senior but former u.s. officials ank acting in their private capacity but sent by the united states are on the ground here to meet
Any differences in Washington s reaction would be nuanced, and rather involve adjustments in degree than in type,” said former AIT chief Douglas H. Paal.
Rising tensions with beijing are a major election issue in the polls. china sees taiwan as a renegade province which, according to beijing, needs to reunite with the mainland. the islands current president tsai ing wen is stepping down after eight years in power. live now to w brent christensen, from provo, utah he is the former director of american institute of taiwan. welcome to bbc news, mr christensen. firstly, the frontrunner, william lai, from the incumbent democratic progressive party, seems to be particularly disliked by beijing, who consider him a separatist for some of his past statements how do you think they might react if he is elected? thank you, it s a pleasure to be here to talk about this really important topic. how will beijing react? obviously they will be very
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