Taiwan’s “war and peace” election

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If there is one thing the Taiwanese people are sure of, it’s that they don’t want unification with China. Photo by Annabelle Chih/Getty Images Taiwan is about to get a new president. After eight years in power, the territory’s first female leader, Tsai Ing-wen, has hit her term limit and is preparing to step down. She hopes to hand over to her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) colleague and current vice-president Lai Ching-te (also known as William Lai), a doctor before he entered politics in the late 1990s and the son of a coal miner. But the race has been closely...