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How China Will Dominate Taiwan's 2020 Presidential Election Campaign

Ralph Jennings

   TAIPEI, TAIWAN - Taiwan's presidential race kicked off Monday with
   China the top issue as a Beijing-friendly mayor won the chief
   opposition party's primary to face an incumbent who wants Beijing to
   keep a distance.

   The opposition Nationalists announced that Han Kuo-yu, now mayor of the
   Taiwanese port city Kaohsiung, had won the presidential primary Monday
   against four other candidates, including the founder of consumer
   electronics assembler Foxconn Technology. Han will go up against
   incumbent Tsai Ing-wen in the January 2020 general election.

   China is expected to define the late-year campaign because the two
   contenders differ on how to handle it, reflecting divisions among
   Taiwanese people.

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