Taiwan ruling party’s Lai wins presidential election
Taiwan ruling party’s Lai wins presidential election
William Lai Ching-te from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has won Taiwan’s presidential election.
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Is that good? The article gives no context for the results.
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Is that good? The article gives no context for the results.
For context here another article by France24
And they state:
" Labelled a separatist by Beijing, the winner in Taiwan’s presidential race has promised to stick to Tsai’s policy of maintaining the status quo, which avoids open declarations of independence while rejecting China’s sovereignty claims. "
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It’s the pro-Independence democracy party.
If that’s good or not is subjective. I personally think it’s good.
To give more perspective, there were 3 choices in the election, move towards being reunited under China, status quo, and move towards gaining independence. So this sends a clear sign of where the population want to continue going despite Chinas recent threats.
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Isn't DPP pro status quo? Ideologically they're pro-independence, but they'd never risk angering the PRC over it.
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Status quo = de facto independence. Is the current position of the ruling DPP.
For me it’s more like KMT -> unification, TPP -> ????(Ko is purposefully vague about this) and DPP -> states quo but further distance from China
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