NEW YORK TIMES: …The election results, including a victory by the opposition Democratic Progressive Party in the central city of Taichung, signal that Taiwan’s governing Chinese Nationalist Party, known as the Kuomintang or K.M.T., will be hard-pressed to retain the presidency in the 2016 election.
The Kuomintang’s losses also suggest that Taiwan voters may be turning against party efforts to forge closer ties with China.
As Beijing has moved to enforce strict control over voting reforms in Hong Kong, a policy that has set off protests known as the Occupy Central movement, voters in Taiwan have said their sense of unease toward China has heightened… (more)
EDITOR: This may be the first instalment that the Chinese government is paying for its intrerference with the election of leadership in Hong Kong.
