Taiwan is heading the polls in what is considered one of the self-ruled island's most significatn elections as voters watch the protests in Hong Kong cautiously as concerns about China's influence mount.
The anti-government protests in Hong Kong thrust China's influence into the spotlight and gave incumbent Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen a boost. Opinion polls show Tsai has a wide double-digit percentage point margin against her closest opponent Han Kuo-yu from the Kuomintang or the Nationalist Party.
In her New Year's Day speech this year, Tsai said Taiwan will "never accept" the one country, two systems"Democracy and authoritarianism cannot coexist within the same country. Hong Kong's people have shown us that 'one country, two systems' is absolutely not viable," Tsai said. "We need to reject 'one country, two systems' as well as all kinds of different ways China is using to package the 'one country, two systems' framework," Chiang told CNBC separately in Mandarin, and cautioned about China's erosion of boundaries defining Taiwan.Even though Beijing has claimed Taiwan as its own, the island has never been under the control of Communist China.
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