Well over a billion registered voters across the Asia-Pacific region will go to the polls in a slew of elections in 2024, deciding the region's economic and diplomatic trajectory for years to come.
Residents of Taiwan will face a defining moment in Jan. 13's presidential election, the results of which will have a huge bearing on how the small self-ruled island interacts with the superpower that claims it -- China. But that is just one pivotal general election on a calendar that includes the largest democracies in South and Southeast Asia, along with legislative polls from the Maldives to Mongolia.
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