Taiwan girds for close presidential race amid China pressure

January 2024 election will take place in restive geopolitical landscape

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Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has served two terms and leaves office in around a year's time. Her successor will face tense relations with Taiwan's giant neighbor across the strait. (Source photo by AFP/Jiji) 

THOMPSON CHAU, Contributing writer

TAIPEI -- With Taiwan's presidential election less than a year away, the battle lines between the two main parties are being drawn, with an increasingly belligerent China very much in evidence.

Presidential and legislative elections for Taiwan are due to take place in January 2024. President Tsai Ing-wen of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party has been in power since 2016, and will finish her second term next year. She is constitutionally barred from a third term.

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