Gloves off as Taiwan presidential election enters final stretch

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Open this photo in gallery: A supporter of the main opposition party Kuomintang (KMT) poses during a campaign rally in Kaohsiung on January 10, 2024.YASUYOSHI CHIBA/Getty Images In the last 10 days before an election in Taiwan, no opinion polls can be published. This is designed to give the public space to make up their own minds, but can have the secondary effect of causing a result that seemed predictable only weeks ago to feel like it’s on a knife edge. The final polls, in late December and early January, showed current Vice-President Lai Ching-te of the ruling Democratic Progressive...