TAIPEI – Taiwanese re-elected President Tsai Ing-wen has won a landslide victory on Saturday.
Tsai beat her main opponent Han Kuo-yu by over 2.6-million votes. Underscoring the scale of her victory, Tsai’s Democratic Progressive Party also won a majority in parliament.
Anti-government unrest in Chinese-ruled Hong Kong took center stage during a campaign in which Tsai held up Taiwan as a beacon of hope for protesters in the former British colony, rejecting Beijing’s offer of a “one country, two systems” model.
China claims Taiwan as its sacred territory, to be taken by force if needed, a threat President Xi Jinping reiterated a year ago.
“We hope that the Beijing authorities can understand that a democratic Taiwan with a government chosen by the people will not give in to threats and intimidation,” Tsai said.(Reuters)
