Elections 2024: Taiwan ... Challenge of peace or war?

The election is over. Continued confrontation with Beijing seems likely. Or is it?

This report was first published in the magazine American Purpose. It can be seen there in its fully edited form and here, as part of our Elections 2024 series.

The issue in the wake of Taiwan's watershed election was less who won, but how China and America will react to this new challenge of a metastable peace that has held, more or less, for three quart…