Taiwan tells China to 'face reality' and respect election results
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Taiwan on Sunday told China to "face reality" and respect its election result, after voters defied Beijing's warnings and chose pro-sovereignty candidate Lai Ching-te as president.

Voters spurned Beijing’s repeated calls not to vote for Lai, delivering a comfortable victory for a man China’s ruling Communist Party sees as a dangerous separatist.

Lai Ching-te of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vowed to defend the island from China’s “intimidation” and on Sunday the island’s foreign ministry told Beijing to accept the result.

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs calls on the Beijing authorities to respect the election results, face reality and give up suppressing Taiwan in order for positive cross-strait interactions to return to the right track,” it said in a statement.

  •  esaru   ( @esaru@beehaw.org ) 
    3•5 months ago

    What is still being debated in Taiwan is if it should declare independence officially, or accept the status quo of factual being independent without declaring it. This is where the three major parties have a different stance, because the DPP kinda tends to the declaration, while the KMT still declares that Taiwan is the legitimate China.

    About the vote: All three major parties say publicly that they are against re-union in terms of being ruled by China’s CCP. Today, even Taiwan’s KMT continues to view Taiwan as the free, democratic and legitimate China. So no, no-one voted “pro mainland China” in terms of how the chinese CCP wants to rule over Taiwan.

    Status quo is: Taiwan has its own from China independent border control, independent military, independent health care system, independent education system, independent currency, independent law system which is derrived from Japanese and German law, and independent political system, which is democratic.

    This is not an opinion, but just the facts. It’s only CCPs rethoric that pretends the opposite.