2024-01-12 22:23:43
International media are paying attention to Taiwan’s presidential election. The picture shows a large number of returning tourists arriving at the station before the polling day.
Taiwan will hold presidential and legislative elections on the 13th. Many people say that this year’s election seems to be colder than in previous years. However, if you browse the frontline of international news, you can find that this time the international media not only published three candidates It also rarely sent a large number of reporters to Taiwan to conduct first-hand observation and reporting on Taiwanese society and this election, which shows that it attaches great importance to the situation in Taiwan.
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The Wall Street Journal reported on the 11th that both the United States and mainland China are paying close attention to this election. The report also quoted Kharis Templeman, a scholar at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, saying, “This is the most difficult to predict in at least 20 years. Taiwan election”, “This is a real three-way race.”
As early as September last year, Bloomberg News took turns to publish exclusive interviews with the three major presidential candidates; the British Financial Times (FT) also entered Taiwanese society to ask young voters regarding their views on the political and economic situation; Baron Financial Weekly ( Barron’s) analyzes the worst-case scenario and market reaction.
As the Taiwan election approaches, international media coverage has increased significantly in the past two weeks. The New York Times, CNBC, Barron’s, CNN and other media have produced Q&A for the Taiwan election to help international readers quickly understand the situation in Taiwan. Nikkei Asian Review Recently, profiles of the three candidates have been published in turn. Bloomberg, the New York Times, WSJ, FT and other media have analyzed the importance of Taiwan’s election to the world. Bloomberg even used a model to predict the global cost of a war in the Taiwan Strait. 10 trillion U.S. dollars, and major Canadian media are also paying attention.
The increased attention from foreign media to Taiwan’s election can be attributed to three major reasons. One is the chip shortage caused by the COVID-19 epidemic, which has made the world aware of the importance of Taiwan, the “Kingdom of Chips”, to the global supply chain, and realized that Taiwan is a global semiconductor player. The core of the supply chain has enabled TSMC (2330) to successively set up factories in the United States, Germany, Japan and other countries, expanding Taiwan’s international reputation.
Secondly, global geopolitical turmoil continues; rising tensions between the United States and China, coupled with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the war between Israel and Hamas in Palestine, have made everyone pay more attention to the next potential geopolitical flashpoint: the situation in the Taiwan Strait. The New York Times, Bloomberg News and WSJ have all analyzed that the results of Taiwan’s election are related to the global situation.
The third is that following mainland China tightened the freedom of news reporting, media from various countries have paid more attention to the situation in Taiwan in recent years. In addition to content providers such as Bloomberg, Archyde.com and the Associated Press, the FT, New York Times and WSJ have reported more frequently on Taiwan’s political situation and With economic development, we will naturally pay more attention to the situation in the Taiwan Strait.
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