There are three key challenges facing Taiwan’s next government. A looming China is just one of them

Taiwan has sent a message to China: Its voters are determined to decide their own future, even in the face of growing threats and military might. They have done this by promoting the island’s current vice-president Lai Ching-te, from the current ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), to the top job. By electing him president, Taiwanese voters have, for the first time in nearly 30 years of democracy, granted a political party a third consecutive term. “We are telling the international community that between authoritarianism and democracy, we choose democracy,” the president-elect said. But voters have sent a message to his…