TAIWAN’S ELECTIONS. A WIN FOR DEMOCRACY AND A MISS FOR CHINA?

Lai Ching-te, the candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), won the presidential election with almost 40% of the vote, while Hou Yu-ih, the candidate of the main opposition Kuomintang Party, who favoured reconciliation with Beijing, won 33% of the vote, followed by Ko Wen-je of the People's Party with 23% (Li, Ting-Fang, Kawase, Chau 2024). [...] The statement came after the results of Taiwan’s parliamentary elections in which no party managed to win the majority; the DPP won 51 seats, the KMT 52, and the TPP 8 seats. [...] In this regard, another issue also addressed was that of building a bridge between Kinmen – an island governed by Taiwan since the withdrawal of the Kuomintang in 1949 – and the city of Xiamen in the southeast of Fujian province. [...] The Romanian Diplomatic Institute (RDI) has the mission to make a substantial contribution to increasing the quality of Romanian diplomacy through training, further education, research, the development of critical and strategic thinking and international networking. [...] Based on the founding legal attributions of the RDI, the further development of the Institute is carried out, according to the needs identified in the MFA, along the following four directions: Training and further education of diplomats and other trainees; Deepening the research and expertise dimension on regional and functional issues; Operating the RDI as a think-tank of the MFA; Integra.