Repeat After Me: Taiwan's Recent Elections Had Nothing to Do

If China was in fact the invisible candidate in Taiwan’s local elections, it just lost in a landslide. On November 28, voters on the self-governing island, which mainland China considers a renegade province, selected candidates for over 11,000 village- and local-level positions, resulting in a resounding defeat for the ruling Kuomintang (KMT), the party which under Taiwan

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