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WATCH: Cross-strait relations continue to be the key issue as the presidential elections are now just over four months away. Bloomberg Television’s Stephen Engle hits the campaign trail with Taiwan People’s Party candidate Ko Wen-je.Source: Bloomberg

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By Betty Hou and Stephen Engle

September 13, 2023 at 10:30 PM UTC

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Former trauma surgeon and Taipei City mayor Ko Wen-je, who is running for Taiwan’s president for the upstart Taiwan’s People Party, spoke with Bloomberg TV correspondent Stephen Engle in Taipei on Sept. 6.

The following is a lightly-edited transcript of that conversation, in which Ko discussed among other things Taipei’s fraught relations with Beijing, ties with the US and the future of Taiwan’s chip industry. Ko delivered his responses in Chinese.