• randint@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Do you even know why the pro-independence party (DPP) lost so badly in the local election for mayors? Because the people were disappointed in what DPP had done with the economy, not because they didn’t agree with the foreign policies DPP was pushing! (Please note that I’m not saying most people agree.) In local elections, people are going to choose whoever they believe would be the best for the city/county, not the one whose views on China they agree with.

    Additionally, if you look at the latest opinion poll for the presidental election next year, you’d be surprised to find out that the candidate from the pro-independence party is leading.

    Source: am Taiwanese

    ps. you made a typo in your comment. it was the 2022 local election, not 2020.

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      1 year ago

      Because the people were disappointed in what DPP had done with the economy

      inciting conflict with your biggest trading partner does tend to have negative effects on the economy

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        1 year ago

        Well yeah I guess, but really it’s more about the policies they had been pushing domesticlly

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          i am sure the success or failure of those domestic policies were not in the least contingent on international political conditions. the economic policies of an island that imports 97% of its energy with a food self sufficiency rate of around 30% and exports accounting for 70% of gdp can in no way be considered to be overexposed or at risk to trade fluctuations and even if that were the case, i am sure that foreign policy would not play an outsize role in determining the magnitude or periodicity of said trade fluctuations.