Taiwan has concluded its eighth direct election of the Republic of China President. It was not a pivotal, watershed or critical election, and it was not a contest between war and peace or the embodiment of democracy vs authoritarianism; it was an entirely normal election...
Jonathan Sullivan is Associate professor in Politics & International Relations at the University of Nottingham. His book (with Lev Nachman) Taiwan: Contested Democracy under Threat (London: Agenda) comes out in November 2023.
