PREVIEW: #Taiwan: #PRC: Excerpt from a conversation with colleague Charles Burton in Taipei, Taiwan for the presidential and legislature vote on Saturday 13 January, pitting the ruling DPP Party against the PRC-favoring Koumintang Party of old. Reporti

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🗓️ 10 January 2024

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PREVIEW: #Taiwan: #PRC: Excerpt from a conversation with colleague Charles Burton in Taipei, Taiwan for the presidential and legislature vote on Saturday 13 January, pitting the ruling DPP Party against the PRC-favoring Koumintang Party of old. Reporting some voter cynicism settling in, says Charles of the constant existentisl drama of PRC provocations. More of this later.

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0:00.0	Everyone is talking about the new Mean Girls movie.
0:03.0	Get in loser.
0:04.0	It's a new twist from Tina Fay.
0:06.0	Mortis, the Queen Bee.
0:07.0	Regina George.
0:08.0	Don't look her in the eye.
0:09.0	Mean Girls is exclusively in Cinemas Wednesday.
0:12.0	You can be really hot.
0:12.9	So you change like everything.
0:14.8	Don't miss the meanest event on the big screen.
0:19.0	Come here, I'm going to fix your eyebrows.
0:20.5	Can I still have two? Oh, hell no.
0:24.0	Mean Girls is exclusively in cinemas Wednesday.
0:27.0	Book tickets now.
0:28.0	Certificate 12A.
0:30.0	This is John Bachelor, speaking with colleague Charles Burton in Taipei, Taiwan for the vote,
0:35.4	the very important vote coming up this weekend.
0:39.0	The three candidates running for the presidency, the lead, according to the last polls taken some weeks ago,
0:46.6	goes to the party in power now, the DPP, the Democratic Progressive Party.
0:51.5	The Guam and Dong, long associated with the mainland, with cooperating, obliging
0:57.0	Shijinping, is in second place and there's a third party vote that it's unknown.
1:02.4	How that will behave at the final polling.
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