“China doesn’t really wish to attack Taiwan, its own domestic problems being pretty serious,” Ko said.
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I just look at Hong Kong. That tells me all I need to know.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
HSINCHU, Taiwan (AP) — With Taiwan’s presidential and parliamentary elections less than two weeks away, the island’s alternative party candidate Ko Wen-je is promoting a policy of patience toward China, which has been upping its threat to annex the island by force.
In the middle of a day of campaigning in the city of Hsinchu, home to many of Taiwan’s most prosperous technology firms, Ko took a half-hour lunch break to speak with The Associated Press in Mandarin Chinese and English, often expanding on his answers in his well-known erudite manner.
The TPP has been filling a space in between that has drawn strong support from younger voters unwilling to follow their parents’ political allegiances and are less sensitive to the cultural divide between those with longstanding ties to the island and others whose families migrated there during the civil war.
He pointed to significant problems within China, which has seen a sharp slowdown in its economy and rising rates of joblessness among young people, along with a crisis in the crucial housing sector leaving construction sites empty even after families had spent their life savings on unbuilt apartments.
The presidential polls remain close, but the relatively new TPP lacks the financing and deeply established community bases of the DPP and KMT.
Recent polls have shown Ko in third place, with the DPP’s candidate, current Vice President William Lai topping them.
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