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'Return to the right track' - Taiwan tells China to 'face reality' and respect election results (www.france24.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (48 children)

Well, look at the results. Only 40% voted for the DPP. 60% voted against the DPP. It's just the 2 more pro-China parties got their vote split. Not so in their congress which is now mostly KMT.

So if we take the popular vote, Taiwan voted for status quo, not Independence. China's noticed that and that's why they're not doing another blockade.

But that goes against your narrative so I'll bet you downvote me and ignore the actual votes that do not support your argument.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (16 children)

They don't even consider themselves Chinese anymore, why would they want to reunite?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (15 children)

I said they wanted status quo. Which we do. You people keep telling us it's about independence. It's not.

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