TAIPEI: Taiwan’s fraught relationship with China will be at center stage this weekend as frustrated voters head to the polls to elect a new Beijing-sceptic leader.

The vote comes after eight years of rapprochement between the two bitterly opposed sides, separated since the end of a civil war in 1949, culminating in a historic summit and handshake beamed around the world.

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