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Rory Medcalf

Why Australia should be celebrating Taiwan’s free elections

Beijing has doubled down on subduing a society that has become a model for democracy in the Chinese-speaking world.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has underscored that 2024 will be a year of democracy, with more elections worldwide than ever before.

For all the global angst about autocracy, the aspiration of people to pick their leaders remains strong. Nowhere is this felt more than in Taiwan, whose voters go to the polls on January 13.

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Professor Rory Medcalf is head of the National Security College at the Australian National University.

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