Tsai Ing-wen was reelected as Taiwan's president by a landslide Saturday, signalling strong support for her tough stance against China among voters determined to defend their democratic way of life.
Tsai soundly defeated Nationalist Party candidate Han Kuo-yu, receiving 57.2% of the vote to Han's 38.6%, with virtually all of the votes counted. She wasted no time in warning communist-ruled China, which views Taiwan as a renegade province, not to try to use threats of force against the self-governed island.
Tsai managed to win in areas that traditionally have gone to the Nationalists in central and southern Taiwan. She said the results of the election proved that Taiwanese are committed to defending their democracy and way of life. In recent months, Beijing has held military exercises across the Taiwan Strait, sailed both of its aircraft carriers through the waterway dividing Taiwan from the mainland and flown air patrols around the island.
While Han and the Nationalist Party have said Taiwan should be more open to negotiations with China, Tsai and her Democratic Progressive Party insisted that the protests showed that the "one country, two systems" approach Beijing has championed for governing both Hong Kong and Taiwan is unworkable.
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