New allegations Beijing tried to infiltrate Taiwan's democracy roiled election campaigning on the island this weekend, with President Tsai Ing-wen's main opponent vowing to drop out if he had taken money from China's Communist Party. A Chinese defector, named as Wang "William" Liqiang by Australian ...
Ruling bloc-backed candidate wins Kochi gubernatorial election
Former internal affairs ministry bureaucrat Seiji Hamada, a candidate supported by the ruling bloc, on Sunday defeated a rival backed by four opposition parties in the Kochi gubernatorial election to succeed the three-term incumbent. Hamada, 56, beat fellow newcomer Kenji Matsumoto, 35, a Japanese Communist ...
Is the growing disparity of wealth in practically every democratic country causing political fragmentization?
Shinzo Abe has brought political stability with his long reign, but not a lot more.
Trump says Vice President Mike Pence will be running mate in 2020 election
U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that Vice President Mike Pence will be his running mate in the 2020 presidential election. "Mike Pence has done a phenomenal job as vice president and he's our guy, he's my friend. And look, we have a great team, ...
Jeremy Corbyn has a radical Labour message. Can he sell it to Britain?
Jeremy Corbyn pulled no punches as he presented the country with his plan for a Labour government, the most radical proposed since 1983, when the party suffered its worst postwar defeat. Railways, water supply and broadband infrastructure would be brought into state ownership. The government's ...
Kochi gubernatorial race seen as barometer on voter attitudes toward Abe
Kochi Prefecture's gubernatorial election Sunday pitting a ruling coalition-backed candidate against an opponent supported by the main opposition parties is being seen as an important gauge of voter sentiment amid recent scandals that have engulfed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and on opposition camp unity. Two ...
Jeremy Corbyn catches up with Johnson in dramatic U.K. election debate
Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn outperformed expectations in a crucial television debate against Prime Minister Boris Johnson, ahead of the U.K.'s general election on Dec. 12. The opposition leader, who has been lagging behind Johnson in personal approval ratings, almost tied with the prime minister in ...
Bolivian police and military forces used armored vehicles and helicopters to unblock access to a major gas plant in the city of El Alto on Tuesday, a show of strength after blockades at the facility had cut off fuel supply to nearby La Paz. Helicopters ...
Food shortages cripple Bolivia as electoral uncertainty grips nation
Bolivians languished in long lines on the streets of La Paz on Sunday to secure chicken, eggs and cooking fuel as supporters of ousted President Evo Morales crippled the country's highways, isolating population centers from lowland farms. Presidency minister Jerjes Justiniano told reporters the government ...
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen chooses running mate whom Beijing loathes
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has named as her running mate for 2020 elections a former prime minister who last year angered Beijing so badly with his support for the island's formal independence that a major Chinese paper called for his arrest. Self-ruled and democratic Taiwan ...
As Taiwan's children of democracy come of age, vote will be about more than China
On Jan. 11, Taiwan will elect a new government, its seventh since 1996 when a constitutional amendment gave Taiwanese a say in who would represent them at the highest levels of island politics. If projections hold, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) President Tsai Ing-wen will be ...
