PEARLS AND IRRITATIONS

Taiwan backs Chiang Kai-shek’s great grandson in push for peace with Beijing

Defeated in 1949 in its civil war against China’s pro-Communist forces, the Nationalist KMT, or Kuo Min-tang, party has had a victory. But it had to wait till last Sunday’s Taiwan mayoral elections, where it won 13 of Taiwan’s 23 district electorates. Remarkably, the winner in the key election for

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