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Taiwan Opposition Defeats Recall, Keeps Legislative Control
Taiwan’s opposition will keep its legislative majority in a blow to President Lai Ching-te’s Democratic Progressive Party, ...
Taiwan’s Great Recall: Historic bid to remove 'pro-China' lawmakers fails
A historic vote in Taiwan on Saturday targeting 24 opposition Kuomintang (KMT) legislators accused of being too friendly with ...
Taiwan’s progressives reckon with utter failure of ‘Great Recall’ against opposition
The "Great Recall" of over two dozen opposition lawmakers in Taiwan was a great disappointment for the president and his ...
Taiwan move to recall opposition lawmakers fails
By Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan opposition lawmakers survived a major recall election on Saturday, thwarting a bid to oust one-fifth of the island's parliamentarians - a move supporters had ...
Macau Business1dOpinion
OPINION – Taiwan’s election recall fiasco and its internal and cross-strait implications
The recent fiasco of the Democratic Progressive Party-led election recall of the directly elected legislators and a mayor in ...
Taipei Times2hOpinion
Notes from Central Taiwan: In the wake of the recall
Notes from Central Taiwan is a column written by long-term resident Michael Turton, who provides incisive commentary informed ...
Foreign Policy Research Institute9d
Taiwan’s Recall Vote and Its Implications
On July 26, only a year and a half after the most recent general election, Taiwanese voters will once again head to the polls ...
Taiwan recall: cross-strait crisis averted for now, but new uncertainty ahead
Vote fails to remove KMT lawmakers, easing tensions with Beijing while raising questions about Taiwan’s defence ambitions and ...
The Diplomat5d
Taiwan’s Recall Elections Failed – But That Doesn’t Signal an Embrace of Beijing
The failure of the recalls does not reflect a re-evaluation of cross-strait policy preferences. But it does send a clear ...
Foreign Affairs2d
Taiwan’s Democracy Is in Trouble
On July 26, Taiwanese citizens went to the polls and voted on whether to recall 24 of their 113 representatives—or 21 percent ...
DPA International on MSN8d
Taiwan recall drive fails to unseat 24 opposition lawmakers
Taiwan's unprecedented mass recall targeting 24 opposition lawmakers from a China-friendly party suffered a setback on ...
Taiwan Recall Campaign Fizzles, in a Setback to Its President
An unprecedented vote to remove lawmakers from office could have handed President Lai Ching-te more power by ousting opponents. It didn’t.