Chip-maker Taiwan’s electorate has rebuffed Beijing

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Taiwan is pivotal to the geopolitics of Asia and the future of global technological leadership. Communist China has never controlled Taiwan, a self-governing democracy, but arrogates to itself the right to take Taiwan over at a time of its choice, regardless of what Taiwanese think. How to deal with Communist China is therefore always a central issue in Taiwan’s elections. On Saturday, Taiwan’s people handed the island’s presidency to Vice President Lai Ching-te. It was the third consecutive presidential election won by the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). But the DPP lost its narrow legislative majority, constraining Lai’s ability to...