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TAIPEI (Reuters) – The presidential candidate for the small Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) said on Friday he is willing to set politics aside and work with other parties if he wins Saturday’s election, describing himself as the only person Beijing and Washington would have no problem with. Former Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je, who founded the TPP in 2019, has won a passionate support base especially among young people for putting issues like the high cost of housing and low wages at the centre of his campaign, and says Taiwan needs to break the traditional two-party mould for real change. Taiwan will ho…

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