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Taiwan presidential front runner Lai Ching-te won’t win election ‘lying down’, say analysts

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Taiwanese Vice-President Lai Ching-te and Ms Hsiao Bi-khim, his running mate for January’s presidential election.

Taiwanese Vice-President Lai Ching-te and Ms Hsiao Bi-khim, his running mate for January’s presidential election.

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- The memes came fast and furious.

As soon as Taiwan’s opposition parties

registered separate presidential candidates

on Nov 24 following a dramatic televised spat, social media was flooded with memes depicting Taiwanese Vice-President Lai Ching-te gleefully eating popcorn and enjoying the debacle.

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