Taiwan elections: pro-sovereignty DPP party wins unprecedented third term
Taiwan has elected former vice president Lai Ching-te as the country’s new leader, delivering the sovereignty Democratic Progressive party an unprecedented third term.
Lai served alongside former president Tsai Ing-wen from 2020. In his victory speech, Lai told a gathering of supporters: ‘We are telling the international community that between democracy and authoritarianism we will stand on the side of democracy’.
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34 comments
Excellent news.
Dear Taiwan
Do you really believe that Americans will send there children to fight and 2 million man Chinese military for you?? Your gonna be in alot of trouble when President Trump takes back over!!
Congratulations to Taiwan! ❤
Cina's not happy.
Winnie the pooh on suicide watch
DPP Lai's win in Taiwan's 🇹🇼 presidential contest
is a big win for the Taiwanese people and a huge loss for the Chinese regime.
It doesn't matter how many times the Chinese regime repeats the lies,
– Taiwan 🇹🇼 is still an independent country.
Congratulations 🎉 to Taiwan’s 🇹🇼new President Lai and Vice President Hsiao ❤
Taiwan is part pf China the same way Puerto Rico is part of the USA.
Taiwan 🇹🇼💪💪💪
I bet USA was behind this‼️
Yay Taiwan! 🇹🇼
Democracy was the winner. Taiwan does it better than most.
თუ ახალ ქვეყნად გინდა არსებიბა ეს პირველ რიგში იმ ტერიტორიის პატრონთან უნდა განიხილო ასე უფრო სწორი მგონია,
❤🎉🎉
[For English] US-KOR-JPN-TPE 🇺🇸🇰🇷🇯🇵 🇹🇼
[For Japanese] 日米韓台 🇯🇵🇺🇸🇰🇷🇹🇼
[For Korean] 한미일대 🇰🇷🇺🇸🇯🇵🇹🇼
Relations between Taiwan and Asian powers, Japan and Korea, could become stronger.
Congratulations to Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party candidate Lai Ching-de on his election.
DEMOCRACY rules. And you can too, China.
And yet 60% of the vote was for unification or peaceful co-operation with China.
Maybe this is the last president of Taiwan
0:46 The winner Lai got "only" 40% of the votes. The KMT's Hou received 33%.
Freedom is non-negotiable!
i love uk,from china
Congrats President elect Lai and VP!
From Siberia, I wish people of Taiwan all the best! And people of Ukraine too!
the next Ukraine in south east asia
Congratulations 🎉 🇹🇼
This is a huge win for Taiwan. The great and beautiful people of Taiwan will live free and they are willing to fight for their rights!
Huge win
Majority is not always right
The Guardian better watch with it's pro-sovereignty headlines, they might veer in to the far right.
Jeez, third term. Catching up with Putin fourth term.
😂 democracy😂
台灣好多 雷根號 其實摧毀福建 包括台灣