In both the U.K. and Taiwan, a third force is disrupting the longtime two-party political balance.

The News Lens
Date: 02019/08/26
By: David Evans

As a Brit living in Taiwan, I find myself wrestling two of the world’s biggest political dilemmas.

While Taiwan struggles with its relations with the massive anti-democratic superpower just across the water, which is seeking to undermine its national sovereignty altogether, the United Kingdom is doing much the same thing.

I’ll put my cards on the table first: I support Taiwan’s right to democracy, self-determination, and reject Communist China’s flawed sovereignty claims over Taiwan. I also support the U.K.’s democratic decision to leave the undemocratic European Union and to return sovereign powers to the British Parliament in Westminster before the EU’s underlying federalist agenda swallows up European national identities once and for all.

Despite respectively being the world’s oldest democracy and one of its youngest, both U.K. and Taiwan are facing remarkably similar electoral dilemmas. Both have newly created political parties that appear likely to rock the traditional political status quo – for better or worse.    [FULL  STORY]