The past eight years had been marked by calm between China and Taiwan, after the election of the China-friendly Ma Ying-jeou as president in 2008, and his subsequent re-election. KMT went wrong in acting subordinate to communist China.
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Alternatively, continuing the Ma administration’s United Nations policy, which has always been criticised by the DPP and pro-independence parties, could lead supporters of these parties to doubt Tsai’s commitment to upholding Taiwan’s sovereignty.
“China may look to “punish” Taiwan for electing the anti-China DPP by making it more hard for Taiwan to negotiate free-trade deals with other countries”, Gareth Leather, Capital Economics.
A motley group of mainland netizens waged a social media war against their Taiwanese counterparts to denounce the poll victory of Taiwan’s President-elect Tsai Ing-wen, but got lost in “enemy territory” and were finally defeated by their own state censors.
There are two other aspects to the DPP’s triumph in Taiwan: First, it may make hardliners in Beijing realise that not only will bullying not work in Taiwan, but neither will it work in Hong Kong. Ms. Tsai’s government is not expected to deliberately provoke mainland China, however. Taiwan’s Parliament also has a quota system that reserves political positions – for example, a third of all seats in the legislature – for women.
The DPP, heir to the resistance movements of the ’40s through to the early ’80s, has stood for democratisation and independence for Taiwan since its founding, in 1986.
Tsai won about 56 percent of the votes in Saturday’s election, far more than the 31 percent gained by Eric Chu, the KMT candidate. Five legislative seats were also won by the youthful New Power Party, with heavy metal rock star Freddy Lim and human rights lawyer Huang Guo-chang both defeating veteran KMT legislators.
On Wednesday evening, her Facebook page was flooded with hostile comments, in what appeared to be a coordinated effort by nationalist Netizens from the mainland, originating from an online discussion forum and apparently meant to counter pro-Taiwan independence comments seen on social media this week.
Her party also said that they “respected” those who exercised freedom of speech.
In China’s view, Taiwan is a renegade Chinese province that technically belongs to the mainland under its “One China” policy.
In response to the CCTC report, the Ministry of National defense said it knew China had held a “routine military drill in winter” but CCTV had used video footage of an exercise that was conducted past year to give an “exaggerated and false” report.
Certainly, she needs to handle cross-strait relations well, or Taiwan’s economy will decline even faster. “There won’t be provocation and there won’t be surprises”.
A Chinese mainland spokesman has highlighted the 1992 Consensus as the political foundation of peaceful development of cross-Strait relations, saying only by sticking to and defending it can the relations have steady and long-term development. ’68, who served as president of Taiwan and the chairman of the Kuomintang party from 1988 to 2000. Joseph Wu Chao-hsieh, the DPP’s secretary-general, says China has been pursuing a “flexible” policy toward Taiwan. “There will be substantial consultations with all sides”.
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Taiwan has the potential to be one of the world’s leading countries in the biomedical sector, much like Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands and Belgium, he argued.
