Taiwan always comes at the end of the list of threats to global security. When analysts discuss threats to world peace, there are three that come up: the war in Ukraine, the Israel-Palestinian conflict ... and the situation in Taiwan. It is in the news because on Saturday, its people voted in the president that Beijing really didn’t want,
William Lai belongs to the DPP party, which has a more assertive approach to Beijing than the Chinese Communist Party would like. And since then, the Chinese have been quite the busy bees, condemning any country which had the temerity to congratulate Mr Lai: that’s the UK, the US and Japan told.
