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On 13 January 2024, Taiwan conducted its Presidential and Legislative Yuan elections. The elections, especially the presidential election, were seen as a watershed event amid increasing global attention on tensions in the Taiwan Strait and Taiwan’s positioning as a key battleground in United States–China strategic competition.
Election night delivered a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) victory in the presidential election. The DPP candidate, Lai Ching-te, won with 40.1 per cent of total votes, coming ahead of the Kuomintang (KMT)…