Is Hong Kong affecting Taiwan's elections?

Published August 23, 2019 6:14pm ET



Is China’s stance on Hong Kong reverberating in the ongoing Taiwanese election campaign?

I ask that question because if you look back to this spring, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has moved from an enormous polling deficit to a modest lead over her more China-sympathetic opponent, Han Kuo-yu. Previously, she had trailed Han by more than 20 points in some polls, but beginning in May Tsai began to pull even and even ahead in some of them.

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