Taiwan thinks it’ll miss Trump. (It probably won’t).
Many Taiwanese love both Tsai, under whom Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, and Trump, who has packed American courts with arch-conservatives.
This quick, competent response has allowed the country’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, to gain popularity and assert with more force than ever Taiwan’s identity and ideal of autonomy and effective independence.
Ten days before Taiwan holds an election, the country lurches into a collective state of anxiety. Laws mandate that media outlets refrain from reporting on polling data during the home stretch before voters cast their ballots.
