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#TAIWAN: Error-free, festive, transparent democracy in Taiwan & What is to be done? Eliizabeth Larus Freund.Adjunct Senior Fellow Pacific Forum.

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🗓️ 14 January 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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#TAIWAN: Error-free, festive, transparent democracy in Taiwan & What is to be done? Eliizabeth Larus Freund.Adjunct Senior Fellow Pacific Forum.

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/taiwan-elects-william-lai-president-in-historic-vote/ar-AA1mUIdG

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I'm John Batcher, The year of democracy and Taiwan's vote is now history.

0:47.0

Successful history. No disruption that is being talked about, no violence in the streets, no

0:54.2

attack by the mainland, the Wall Street Journal headline, Taiwan voters defy

0:59.0

Beijing in electing a new president. At the same time there are details to that defiance and

1:06.8

I welcome Elizabeth Freund Laras, adjunct senior fellow at the Pacific Forum who is in Taipei, Taiwan, has been there to observe

1:16.0

the vote.

1:17.0

Liz, a very good evening to you.

1:18.9

Thank you for this.

1:20.1

The party in power remains the party in power. The election of the vice president of the DPP now to be the president.

1:28.0

Your time in Taipei observing this election.

1:32.0

I observed it in 2004. It was extremely festive, went

1:35.9

forward straight to the final results, the evening of. What was your

1:41.2

experience in these last 24 hours? Good evening to you.

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