Posted on 01/13/2024 7:17:37 AM PST by FreeReign
Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate William Lai, also known by his Chinese name of Ching-te, has emerged victorious after a tightly contested presidential election as the island’s next leader, Fox News Digital confirms.
"The results are in, and Taiwan’s voters stood up to China and all its war talk of recent weeks," Gordon Chang, Gatestone Institute Senior Fellow and China expert, told Fox News Digital. "Free people, living just a hundred miles from the menacing Chinese state, refused to be intimidated."
Lai, defeated his rival, New Taipei City Mayor Hou Yu-ih of the Kuomintang (KMT) party, by just over 7% of the vote after Hou conceded at 8 p.m. local time. Taiwan saw around 69% of voters turnout for the election this year - less than the impressive 75% seen in the 2020 election, which saw 13.6 million people turn out to vote, but more than the 66% that turned out for the 2016 election, according to the Taipei Times.
The victory marks DPP's third successive win over KMT for the first time since Taiwan began democratic elections over 30 years ago - the first time a party has done so, with parties retaining control for no more than 8 years before switching places as voter sentiment swayed between the two major parties.
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You think?
Taiwan has no right to do anything except what Xi tells them. Globalists have made them invade China.
I think you are missing the big picture.
Of course oil is very important—but oil is not an end in itself—it is a means to an end.
Japan sought a massive empire that had total control of the region.
That is exactly what China wants today.
All the rest is details.
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