Does Democracy Matter, Anyway?

President Tsai Ing-wen, of Taiwan, thinks there is value in democracy. At least for her island nation.“Taiwan’s refusal to give up,” she writes in Foreign Affairs, “its persistent embrace of democracy, and its commitment to act as a responsible stakeholder (even when its exclusion from international institutions has made that difficult) are now spurring the rest of the world to reassess its value as a liberal democracy on the frontlines of a new clash of ideologies.”