Taiwan’s opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party will announce its presidential candidate on May 17. The choice will reveal the party’s strategy for its upcoming campaign and set the tone for the entire election.
On March 26, the Central American country Honduras became the latest nation to abandon Taiwan to establish diplomatic ties with China. Three days later, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen got on a plane bound for Guatemala and Belize.
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Maggie Lewis, a law professor at Seton Hall University, discusses the recent presidential election in Taiwan, where she and other Chinese and Taiwanese legal scholars...
"China will likely now be looking for ways to punish Tsai for the incident," says Paul Haenle, the director of the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy in Beijing. "Will the president-elect stand up for Taiwan when that happens? This is one of the real concerns of those who have pushed back against publicizing the phone call."