The incumbent KMT mayor of Taipei, Chiang Wan-an, right, is facing what would be a humiliating defeat at the hands of first-term legislator Puma Shen of the DPP. (Source photos by Reuters)
Chris Horton is a Taipei-based journalist and author of "Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and Its Struggle for Survival," published by Macmillan in 2025.