TAIWAN: Taiwan election presents new challenge for Beijing*

As News Weekly goes to press, the people of the Republic of China (Taiwan) are preparing to vote in Presidential Elections in which the communist regime in Beijing has found itself siding with its old enemies of the Kuomintang, which has run Taiwan since being driven into exile from the mainland in 1949, against the Democratic Progressive Party, which has supported a referendum on independence from the mainland.To outsiders, the issue appears to be shadow-boxing, as Taiwan has had de facto indep…

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