The Chinese shadow over Taiwan’s election

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How are presidential candidates in Taiwan responding to the ongoing threat of invasion from China? Amy Hawkins reports On the eve of Taiwan’s presidential and legislative elections, the Guardian’s senior China correspondent, Amy Hawkins, tells Michael Safi why relations with China have dominated the campaigns. In his new year’s message, China’s president, Xi Jinping, reiterated his call for the “reunification” of China and Taiwan, an idea that the main three political parties in Taiwan reject. The Chinese Communist party has never ruled in Taiwan. On the ballot, voters will be presented with different approaches to dealing with the threat. Amy...