- Taiwan, record of votes for the outgoing president Tsai Ing-wen. The challenger acknowledges defeat
- Taiwan to vote, behind Beijing's threatening shadow
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by Tiziana Di Giovannandrea 13 January 2020 The victory in Taiwan, two days ago, of those who are for the independence line from China with the re-election for the second consecutive time as president of Tsai Ing-Wen, has exacerbated the political clash between the US and Beijing .After the words of the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, who praised the president of Taiwan for the re-election last Saturday, China warns against attempts to separate Taiwan from the People's Republic of China, which "will leave a stain in history" and comments as "wrong" the words of the US secretary of state.
"Reunification in the Taiwan Strait," said Foreign Minister Wang Yi , in these hours traveling to Africa, in a note published by his ministry, "is historically inevitable. Anyone who will try to separate the country is destined for a leave a stain in history ".
Wang also cited the one-China principle that Taiwan is part of the People's Republic as a consensus reached within the international community. "This consensus will not change in the slightest due to local elections on the island of Taiwan, nor will it be shaken by the wrong words and actions of individual Western politicians," reads the note, in what appears to be the first direct reference to the words used by Pompey.
Many political observers have commented that Tsai's victory has among its causes the relative economic recovery of Taiwan, some errors made by the opposition party and the mass protests in Hong Kong that made many Taiwanese understand what could happen under the Chinese authority.