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Tainan Candidate Detained Accused of Running at China's Behest

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The head of the Taiwan People's Communist Party is being held incommunicado on suspicion of running for local office at the direction of China, after Tainan prosecutors alleged he received instruction and funding from Beijing ahead of this month's local elections, where he is running for a neighborhood chief position.