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'Return to the right track' - Taiwan tells China to 'face reality' and respect election results (www.france24.com)

submitted 10 months ago by tardigrada to c/news

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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.

Lai Ching-te of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vowed to defend the island from China's "intimidation" and on Sunday the island'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 statement.

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[–] vexikron@lemmy.zip 55 points 10 months ago (52 children)

Funny, I just had a whole bunch of hexbear and ml lemmy tankies dogpile on me for, not even suggesting necessarily that Taiwan seems to desire that it be independent from China, but that if they did voice that opinion democratically, that such a thing should be respected, even if they are a flawed and imperfect capitalist society.

They all seemed to be very certain the Taiwanese people desire a kind of integration into China that would essentially make them either a puppet state or perhaps nominally democratic province.

[–] Joncash2@lemmy.ml 23 points 10 months ago (48 children)

Well, look at the results. Only 40% voted for the DPP. 60% voted against the DPP. It's just the 2 more pro-China parties got their vote split. Not so in their congress which is now mostly KMT.

So if we take the popular vote, Taiwan voted for status quo, not Independence. China's noticed that and that's why they're not doing another blockade.

But that goes against your narrative so I'll bet you downvote me and ignore the actual votes that do not support your argument.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

China was using their Taiwanese propaganda group, KMT, to threaten voters prior to the election.

China and Taiwan's main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), have cast the election as a choice between war and peace. [...] KMT presidential candidate Hou Yu-ih said on Saturday a vote for the DPP was equivalent to "sending everyone out to the battlefield" because supporting Taiwan independence would touch off a war.

And this is what China's military aggression against Taiwan looked like between March 2022 and March 2023:

This is blatantly provocative and threatening.

China has been doing everything they can to manipulate the outcome of this election, and they didn't get the results they wanted so now they're whining about it, and making more threats. China is behaving like an abusive ex.

An independent public opinion poll conducted in 2022 found that 50% of Taiwanese favored independence, while only 12% favored unification and 25% preferred maintaining the status quo.

But that goes against your narrative so I'll bet you downvote me and ignore the actual [data] that do not support your argument.

[–] Joncash2@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

And when it came time to vote, that didn't happen. So yeah your pills are biased.

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