After his easy victory in the party’s leadership election, Taiwan is asking if Johnny Chiang is the man to save the island’s century-old Kuomintang (KMT).The 48-year-old, US-educated politician defeated his sole opponent – former party vice-chairman and Taipei mayor Hau Long-bin – in a poll that saw a record low voter turnout of less than 36 per cent.Chiang has been in politics for just a decade and is practically unknown outside Taiwan. But the question now is can he save the troubled party,…
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