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Saturday’s election victory for Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen was big, but the defeat for Beijing was bigger, a stark lesson the dictatorship next door — no matter how powerful or prosperous — holds little appeal for the only part of “Greater China” that gets a real vote on its own democratic future. CBC | World News

Russian President Vladimir Putin says he’ll seek re-election in March 2018, and opinion polls indicate he would comfortably win, setting the stage for him to extend his dominance of Russia’s political landscape into a third decade. CBC | World News