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Tsai Ing Wen’s Taiwan election landslide owes much to Hong Kong, but don’t expect thanks

by Kent Ewing

Millions of Hongkongers took great vicarious pleasure in the recent landslide re-election victory of Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen. Tsai’s triumph of garnering a record 8.2 million votes (58 per cent of the total turnout) was, in a very real sense, a triumph for Hong Kong as well. Indeed, although such recognition will never be publicly expressed, […]