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: Taipei Mayor Says Taiwan Is ‘Just a Product on a Shelf’ for Trump
: Taiwan must focus on making itself more valuable to President Donald Trump and
: accept its status as a pawn in the great power game between the U.S. and Chin
: a, Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je said.
: The outspoken former surgeon and potential presidential contender told Bloombe
: rg News that Taiwan shouldn’t overestimate the U.S.’s willingness to defend
: the island from an attack by its much bigger neighbor. Ko, 59, said Taiwan nee
: ded to boost its worth to America by strengthening shared values, such as demo
: cracy and economic transparency.
: “Taiwan is just a product on a shelf,” Ko said Wednesday at Taipei City Hall
: . “We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.”
: Such blunt assessments have helped make Ko one of Taiwan’s most popular polit
: icians since winning election as the capital city’s mayor as an independent i
: n 2014. Should he secure a second term in local elections Nov. 24, he’s consi
: dered a strong contender for president, something he repeatedly declined to ru
: le out.
: “We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it,” he said.
: Ko attributed his political success to offering an alternative to the two fact
: ions who have long dominated local politics: the Kuomintang, which sees itself
: as the rightful ruler of a unified China, and the Democratic Progressive Part
: y, which aspires to independence. He’s also shaken up city policies, suspendi
: ng work on a 40,000-seat arena intended for last year’s University Games.
: “They support me because I am their only hope,” he said. “I am not perfect,
: but they put their hope in me because they are desperate.”
: Ko faces challenges from both sides during the Nov. 24 election: former lawmak
: ers Ting Shou-chung, of the KMT, and Pasuya Yao, of the DPP. A survey by broad
: caster TVBS last month found him leading Ting by 5 percentage points and Yao b
: y 26 percentage points.
: Ko