Explainer: Why Taiwan’s vote commands global attention

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Kuomintang Party campaign event for the 2024 elections with many Taiwanese flags. AFP read aloud pause X When Taiwan votes, the world watches closely – not so much out of concern for democratic due process but because of China’s hostile attitude towards the island. This content was published on January 9, 2024 - 09:00 Bruno Kaufmann Bruno is SWI swissinfo.ch’s global democracy correspondent as well as being a long-term foreign correspondent for the Swiss Broadcasting Company, based in Sweden. He is also the Director of International Relations at the Swiss Democracy Foundation, Co-president of the Global Forum on Modern Direct...