The Presidential election being held on March 20 in Taiwan will have important implications for relations with China, and may set a model for a future multi-party democracy in China. It is very clear that the election is being closely watched in Beijing, and by the Chinese people.Taiwan, a nation of 23 million people, has been effectively independent of China since the former Nationalist Government came to power there, after the Chinese Communist Party, with Soviet Russian support, seized the ma…
