By Brian Hioe
Compared to the three policy presentations that have taken place to date, the presidential debate held yesterday allowed for more substantive exchanges between the three presidential candidates who will be running in Taiwan's 2020 elections: Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party, Han Kuo-yu of the Kuomintang, and James Soong of the People's First Party. It was the only presidential debate scheduled for this election cycle.
The increased exchanges were likely due to the format of the debate, which required more engagement between the candidates as well as outside experts. But for the most part, the candidates repeated many of the same talking points from their previous policy presentations.
