As Taiwan's election approaches next month, it is not only fraught ties with China competing for electors' attention.
The candidates are exchanging blows over everything from property disputes to whether drinking whisky is out of touch, in a raucous and freewheeling display of the island's democracy.
Taiwan's Jan. 13 presidential and parliamentary election will define how the Chinese-claimed island deals with Beijing and the subject is indeed a major bone of contention.