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Clinton camp to support push for ballot recount

Taipei Times

Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at a campaign event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on March 28.
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About three weeks after the US presidential election, Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign on Saturday said that it would participate in a recount process in Wisconsin incited by a third-party candidate and would join any potential recounts in two other closely contested states, Pennsylvania and Michigan.

Trump could cure ‘China disease’

Huang Tien-lin 黃天麟

At one of his campaign stump speeches during the US presidential election, US president-elect Donald Trump directly accused China of manipulating the exchange rate in its favor and threatened to slap a 45 percent tariff on Chinese imports to the US should he be elected.

Much of the pro-China media in Taiwan were critical of his words. In fact, if Trump does follow through on this promise, it will likely be good for Taiwan in the short and long term.

Who will rise to replace the US?

Paul Lin 林保華

US president-elect Donald Trump announced that his first task on entering the White House would be to withdraw from the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. If the US moves toward isolationism, a host of nations will rise that want to replace the US.

The first nation that will try to do so will be China: the world’s most populous nation and second-largest economy. In such an event, Russia, militarily the second-most powerful nation in the world, would not be prepared to simply watch from the sidelines. Japan and Germany would also wait for an opportunity to pounce, in order to prevent China and Russia from achieving dominance in Europe and Asia.

A new era in Taiwan-US relations

Yu Jie 余杰

Judging by the chorus of wails from domestic commentators following the election of Donald Trump as the next US president, people might think that Taiwan has once again been dumped by Washington.

Chinese-language newspapers China Times and United Daily News have been particularly vociferous in their calls for Taiwan to emulate the governments of the Philippines and Malaysia, who have cast aside their alliances with the US and jumped into bed with Beijing.

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