It is election time in China again. Or at least it is in Taiwan, the self-governing island that Beijing claims as an inalienable part of the People’s Republic. Though Taiwan’s presidential poll is taking place in a small, somewhat forgotten, island of 23m people, the result is of intense concern to the world’s two most important powers, the US and China. For both, who becomes president of Taiwan is probably more important than who is president of France.
中國再次進入選舉時期。或者說，至少在臺灣如此。中國大陸宣稱，臺灣是中國領土不可分割的一部分。儘管臺灣總統選舉發生在一個有點被人遺忘、只有2300萬人口的自治小島上，但其結果卻深深關係到全球兩個最重要國家——美國和中國的利益。對於中美兩國而言，誰成爲臺灣總統大概比法國總統是誰更重要。
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