【明報專訊】THE Taiwan presidential race has recently taken a new turn. The two candidates from the pan-blue coalition, Hung Hsiu-chu of Kuomintang (KMT) and James Soong of the People First Party, have announced one after another that they will "closet herself away" and "take stock of what has happened" respectively. This has given the pan-green coalition new momentum at the expense of the blues, so much so that Tsai Ing-wen, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate, declared last week that "we will have to start working next year."