Taiwan ready to join the world’s democratic powers (J Bruce Jacobs, East Asia Forum)

Consolidated democracies in Asia are rare. India and Japan democratised after World War II, and Taiwan and South Korea did so from the late 1980s. Countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines and Mongolia have made important first steps but democracy remains fragile. Taiwan has just undergone its third change of government since 2000. Unfortunately for the Taiwanese people, the administrations of presidents Chen Shui-bian (2000–2008) and Ma Ying-jiu (2008–2016) promised much but delivered little.

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