Could Taiwan’s election start a war?
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The Times
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🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Tomorrow, Taiwan heads to the polls. It’s the first election of a historic year, where more than half of the world’s population will vote. It could also be one of the most consequential. If the ‘wrong’ candidate wins, China may threaten the self-governing island which the US has pledged to defend.
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| 1:29.0 | Not only with the U.S. presidential election, with those in India, Indonesia, the Ukraine. |
| 1:36.0 | We have in 2024 more people voting than in any other year in the history of the world. |
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| 2:05.0 | might actually be one of the most consequential. One of them I'm looking at is Taiwan. |
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