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.

  • NaibofTabrEnglish
    20•5 months ago

    China was using their Taiwanese propaganda group, KMT, to threaten voters prior to the election.

    China and Taiwan’s main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), have cast the election as a choice between war and peace. […] KMT presidential candidate Hou Yu-ih said on Saturday a vote for the DPP was equivalent to “sending everyone out to the battlefield” because supporting Taiwan independence would touch off a war.

    And this is what China’s military aggression against Taiwan looked like between March 2022 and March 2023:

    This is blatantly provocative and threatening.

    China has been doing everything they can to manipulate the outcome of this election, and they didn’t get the results they wanted so now they’re whining about it, and making more threats. China is behaving like an abusive ex.

    An independent public opinion poll conducted in 2022 found that 50% of Taiwanese favored independence, while only 12% favored unification and 25% preferred maintaining the status quo.

    But that goes against your narrative so I’ll bet you downvote me and ignore the actual [data] that do not support your argument.