A gesture of support and encouragement from Mr Rudd for the new government in Taipei would carry a lot of weight, says Jeffry Babb.Former Taipei mayor Ma Ying-jeou won Taiwan’s recent presidential election in a landslide, paving the way for better relations with Australia, the United States and mainland China.Ma, the Kuomintang (KMT) candidate, took 58 per cent of the vote, defeating the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) standard-bearer Frank Hsieh, who gained 42 per cent of the vote. The scale…
