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Taiwan’s Ruling Party Braces for Tough Midterm Elections

Taiwan’s ruling party, which has cold relations with the island’s political rival, China, will be tested at the polls Saturday when voters cast ballots in midterm local elections that may impact the presidential race of 2020. The ruling Democratic Progressive Party risks losing two or three bellwether seats, enough to hobble but not kill President Tsai Ing-wen’s expected campaign for another four years in office, local political analysts say. Tsai won by a landslide in 2016 after...

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