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With Taiwan’s presidential and legislative elections slated for January 13, dozens of analysts forecasting the presidential winner and the election’s effect on the geopolitical realities are missing the nitty gritty: whoever wins, he will collide with a parliament in which the two losing parties combined will comfortably outnumber his ow…