Taiwan’s political friction is boon for Beijing

Cindy Yu/Times: These new dynamics raise the stakes for Taiwan’s parliamentary deadlock, which seems indulgent at best. It’s enough to irritate allies. “At some point like-minded democratic partners will ask why they are filling in the gap when Taiwan’s political class cannot even get their act together,” an unnamed European official said to Nikkei Asia recently. It’s an opinion shared by some in Washington, where isolationists hardly need an excuse to pull back…