Dramatic Week in Taiwan Leaves Pro-US Candidate as Frontrunner
- Implosion of Beijing-friendly unity ticket helps Lai Ching-te
- A win for the ruling party would take pressure off Washington
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After a week of dramatic twists and turns, Taiwan’s most pro-US candidate has a clearer path to victory in next year’s presidential election, in an outcome likely to frustrate Beijing.
While the ruling Democratic Progressive Party’s candidate, Vice President Lai Ching-te, has been ahead in polls all year, a much-hyped alliance between the main opposition camps had threatened to wipe out his lead.