San Francisco Candidates Outline Taiwan Policy

In a two-part Q&A series, Mission Local interviewed three leading San Francisco candidates — Saikat Chakrabarti, State Sen. Scott Wiener, and Supervisor Connie Chan — about trade, foreign aid, and U.S.-China-Taiwan relations. Chakrabarti endorses defending Taiwan and favors shifting resources from military to foreign aid; Wiener backs continued defensive arms sales and USAID rebuilding, while Chan emphasizes peace and personal linkages to the region.