Outcome exposes public fatigue with ruling DPP and leader William Lai’s anti-Beijing rhetoric as a blanket strategy, analysts say
All 24 lawmakers from the Beijing-friendly KMT who faced recall votes survived, in what analysts described as a serious political miscalculation by the DPP and its affiliated civil society groups.
The backfiring of the DPP’s high octane campaign, which was championed as a way to root out “pro-China forces” and safeguard Taiwan’s democracy, exposes growing public fatigue with “anti-China” rhetoric as a blanket strategy.
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