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Podcast: ChinaTalk
Episode: Taiwan Election Showdown! A Blue Prof and Green Pol Explain
Description: The Taiwanese populace will head to the polls to choose their next president on January 13, 2024 β and the three-party slate is set!To discuss, we brought on Lu Yeh-chung η§ζ₯δΈ β a professor of diplomacy at National Chengchi University εη«ζΏζ²»ε€§εΈ β and Lin Fei-fan ζι£εΈ, previously the Deputy-Secretary of the DPP and well-known for leading the Sunflower Student Movement in 2014.Our conversation gets into:
What a three-party race means in a first-past-the-post electoral system, and how the pan-blue and pan-green camps are feeling;
Why the KMT-TPP alliance broke down, and what the pan-blue side needs to do to mobilize its electorate;
The KMTβs and DPPβ...