Taiwan’s election results don’t ease the sense of looming tragedy

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Charles Burton is a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, non-resident senior fellow of the European Values Center for Security Policy in Prague, and former diplomat at Canada’s embassy in Beijing. He is in Taiwan as a member of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy’s International Election Observation Delegation. It was a privilege to be an official observer for Saturday’s national election, witnessing Taiwanese democracy in all its beauty, comedy, looming tragedy – and a high degree of civility that puts Canada’s toxic political culture to shame. As 2024 unfolds in a world of rising conflict and turmoil, Taiwan’s closely watched...