Chan Koon-chung’s novel posits a Nationalist Party victory in the Chinese civil war, which in our reality ended in communist occupation of mainland China.
Tsai Ing-Wen, presidential nominee of Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party, met with supporters at the Marriott Hotel in Brooklyn, the fourth stop in her “Light Up Taiwan-U.S. Campaign Tour.”
Straying too close to communist mainland China may not have been the wisest move for the Republic of China’s Nationalist Party (KMT), which handily lost Taiwan’s latest round of regional elections held on Nov. 29.