Taiwan’s foreign minister, Joseph Wu, says there are clear signs that China is meddling in the country’s elections.
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00:00 Just over a month to go till Taiwan goes to the polls
00:04 and Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu says
00:06 Chinese interference in this election campaign is apparent.
00:11 Leading in the polls is the current Vice President Lai Ching-de.
00:15 Relations between Taipei and Beijing have plummeted in recent years.
00:20 Foreign Minister Joseph Wu says election interference is clear
00:24 because the Taiwan Affairs Office,
00:27 that's the government agency in China that deals with affairs with Taiwan,
00:31 has been giving very clear statements that a vote for Lai
00:35 and the ruling party means a vote for war,
00:38 whereas a vote for the opposition means a vote for peace.
00:42 Foreign Minister Wu also said he believes a determining factor
00:45 in why Terry Boer, the Foxconn founder who was standing as an independent candidate,
00:51 he withdrew from the race because of, according to Foreign Minister Wu,
00:55 a Chinese investigation into his company on Chinese soil.
00:59 So Foreign Minister Wu has given a warning that he expects
01:03 more Chinese cognitive warfare as we get closer to polling day in mid-January.
01:10 Alex Chen and Louise Watt in Taipei for Taiwan Plus.
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