Inside Taiwan's Local Elections

On November 26, 2022, Taiwan held local elections commonly referred to as its "midterms." Dr. Kharis Templeman of the Project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific at Stanford University's Hoover Institution joins the podcast to explain the results. We discuss the implications for the balance between the governing DPP and the opposition KMT, the country's rejection of an amendment to lower the voting age, and the implications for cross-strait relations.

Check out our website for an election briefing by CAD researchers that provides more detail on Taiwan's race and the status of democracy on the island: https://louisville.edu/asiandemocracy/