Taiwan’s Foreign Minister discusses country’s elections in interview with The Sunday Times
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(Original source: The Times and Sunday Times)
On 28 December, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu’s interview about the Taiwanese elections on 11 January 2020 was published in The Sunday Times under the title “Bullied yet buoyant, Taiwan voters seek to damage Xi”. Minister Wu pointed out that Beijing has staged a wide-ranging “manipulation campaign” to influence Taiwan’s election results, but despite this, China’s leader is heading for his own defeat at the ballot box. “This is Taiwan’s election for Taiwan’s people to make their voice heard,” said Minister Wu, adding that “this election will allow people to decide whether they want Taiwan’s fate to be manipulated and even determined by China, or whether Taiwan will maintain its own political system, its own democracy and its own direction.” Commenting on the situation in Hong Kong, Minister Wu said that “Beijing wanted to use Hong Kong as a showcase to Taiwan for the future unification,” but that the protests have sounded the alarm to people in Taiwan.