Taiwan Presidential Election: Anti-China Position at Risky Election Center

The world is watching the presidential election this Saturday in Taiwan with concern. The issue is crucial: the position vis-à-vis China, which claims the island as one of its territories and warns its 23.5 million inhabitants against an independence candidate winning. Independence? Reunion? Or maintain the status quo? That is, de facto independence, which is not proclaimed by the authorities of Taipei (the capital) and is not recognized internationally (with the exception of a few countries). But this autonomy allows the Taiwanese, who emerged from dictatorship in the late 1980s, to live in a democracy that ranks among the highest in Asia on political, economic and social criteria, with, among other things, regular elections.