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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The victory in Taiwan’s presidential election of Lai Ching-te — a man Beijing has described as a dangerous separatist — gives the ruling Democratic Progressive party (DPP) an unprecedented third term in office. On the
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A high-level US delegation of former top officials will arrive in Taipei later on Sunday, putting to the test China’s restraint in its response to its democratic neighbour’s presidential election. Taiwan on Saturday elected Lai
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Before Taiwan’s voters went to the polls on Saturday, the Chinese Communist party made sure they knew its preferred outcome, calling on them to make the “right choice” between peace and war and denouncing the Democratic Progressive party’s Lai Ching-te as a dangerous separatist. But now that Lai has won the presidency, Beijing has toned
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