The World Ahead | Asia in 2024
China is watching closely who will be Taiwan’s next president
It prefers, as always, the KMT candidate
By Alice Su
On January 13th 2024 Taiwan’s voters will elect a new president. The stakes are high. Tensions between China and America may reach a critical point in the next four years. America’s intelligence agency, the CIA, has said that Xi Jinping wants China’s military to be ready for an invasion of Taiwan by 2027. Taiwan’s next president will determine the island’s strategy to prevent that invasion, and preserve its sovereignty and democracy.
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This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition of The World Ahead 2024 under the headline “Facing the dragon”