Lev Nachman, a doctoral candidate in political science at UC Irvine and a Fulbright research fellow in Taiwan [said] it is too soon to give a verdict on the government’s overall handling of the coronavirus crisis. But regardless of the outcome, it will almost certainly be a talking point for the Democratic Progressive Party in the future, just as the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests were in the last election. “This also serves that kind of frame of, this is why creating close ties with China is bad for Taiwan,” Nachman said.

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