Ahead of Taiwan's presidential elections in January, President Tsai Ing-wen has seen a huge bump in voter support since the Hong Kong protests started more than four months ago.
"The Hong Kong protests have had a tremendous impact on Taiwan politics and the upcoming election," and "really given a bounce to Tsai Ing-wen" said Elizabeth Freund Larus, professor of political science and international affairs at the University of Mary Washington.
Tsai said Thursday that Hong Kong, hit by months-long anti-government protests, was "on the edge of disorder" due to the failure of a political arrangement guaranteeing certain freedoms, according to Reuters. "Taiwan is seeing the protests in Hong Kong, and sees that this is the nail in the coffin to 'one country, two systems,'" said international relations professor Larus.
"The overwhelming consensus among Taiwan's 23 million people is our rejection of 'one country, two systems,' regardless of party affiliation or political position," she said, according to Reuters."Cross-strait relations have been really chilly since Tsai Ing-wen became president because she has not accepted the 1992 consensus, which the basis is the 'One China' principle," she said.
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