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.
I said they wanted status quo. Which we do. You people keep telling us it’s about independence. It’s not.
Isn’t the current status quo that Taiwan is independent of China? From the Taiwan government’s point of view, of course. It’s pretty clear what China’s POV WRT Taiwan is.
No and that’s what annoys me about how people talk about Taiwan with no understanding of what’s actually going on. Status quo is Taiwan and China are one, but Taiwan runs itself independently, just as Taiwan wants.
Isn’t that a contradiction?