Taiwan has voted: bringing the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Get together an unprecedented consecutive third time period within the presidency. Now the world is ready on Beijing, which claims Taiwan however doesn’t rule it.
Saturday’s DPP victory, with round 40% of the vote, might imply extra scary headlines within the near-term. One other set of large-scale army workout routines, just like the blockade mock-up within the wake of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s go to in 2022, is feasible. Beijing introduced it might cancel preferential tariff charges for 12 Taiwanese petrochemical merchandise in late December. Extra commerce broadsides are most likely on the way in which.
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