Taiwan tells China to face reality and respect the election result after voters choose pro-sovereignty candidate Lai Ching-te as president, defying Beijing's warnings.
Taiwan told China on Sunday to “face reality” and respect its election result, after voters defied Beijing ’s warnings and chose pro-sovereignty candidate Lai Ching-te as president. 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.
Beijing, which claims Taiwan as its territory and has never renounced force to bring it under its control, responded to Lai’s victory by saying it would not change the “inevitable trend of China’s reunification”. Lai, of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), had vowed to defend the island from China’s “intimidation” and on Sunday Taipei’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 statemen
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