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Cross-strait relations in for rocky ride if Lai Ching-te wins Taiwan presidential election
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With just a month to go before the presidential election, Mr Lai Ching-te is leading in the opinion polls.
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BEIJING - When China went after senior Taiwanese politicians deemed to be pro-independence hardliners, it spared the top two leaders.
In November 2021, it blacklisted then-Taiwan Premier Su Tseng-chang, parliamentary Speaker You Si-kun and Foreign Minister Joseph Wu, branding them pro-independence diehards who have instigated cross-Strait confrontation and maliciously slandered China.
