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by landryraccoon 2272 days ago
I don’t think it’s only culture and this just happened by itself. The leadership of President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) surely was a factor as well.

Culture works in conjunction with good policy and leadership. I would be wary of attributing too much to the relatively immutable and hand-wavy notion of culture.
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autojoechen 2271 days ago
Their VP is also an epidemiologist by training, a public health researcher, and was the health minister during the SARS epidemic [0] so definitely seems like the right person in the right job at the right time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Chien-jen

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unityByFreedom 2271 days ago
Absolutely, the opposing candidate was very pro-unification with China. With Tsai they got sensibility and a former health minister as VP.
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