Insight into how global power rivalry is affecting Taiwanese voters as they prepare to elect a new president on Jan 13.
Taiwan ese voters will go to the polls on Jan 13 to elect a new president. But there is much more at stake. The programme Insight finds out how global power rivalry is playing out on the ground. The time is nigh for voters in Taiwan to make a decision. How will they choose? (Photo: Sam Yeh /AFP)TAIPEI: It is about 9 a.m. in Ruifang, the seaside district close to 40 kilometres north-east of Taipei, and fishermen have just returned from the sea.
Their catch: Ribbon fish, caught off the coast of Taiwan, in the East China Sea. These fish can grow more than 2 metres and are a popular dish in Chinese cuisine. They are mainly sent to mainland China, says Huang Chih-ming, who heads the Ruifang District Fishermen’s Association. “The catch today is pretty good,” he observes. “Almost 500 kilogrammes.”It was only last March when China lifted a ban on ribbon fish from Taiwan — a ban that coincided with the then United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei months earlier, affecting products from over 100 Taiwanese exporter
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