Taiwan's growing wealth gap fuels populism, threatens DPP rule: Scholar

The success of the semiconductor industry will widen Taiwan's wealth gap, creating a comparatively poorer segment of the population that is ripe for populism and against the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), an Academia Sinica scholar said Saturday.

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