spoken to an economist at the intelligence unit and asking how the results of the selection impacts of the island positive relationship with beijing. china is incredibly suspicious of its intentions in 11 this ties back to the past remarks. he is someone infamous in the fact that he has very vocally supportive of independence but it is also really important to mention that he has genuinely softened his stance in the past few years and on the campaign trail since he has served as vice president in taiwan he has really espouse more of a pro status quo position, the idea that he will inherit the foreign policy and domestic policy priorities of the outgoing president and really that suggest there is not going to be any radical change in these policy direction and we are not expecting them to follow anytime soon. that said, the big question here is a turn of a loop going to believe that. the policymakers in beijing are still incredibly wary of this intentions. they are also going
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Taipei for us tonight. Reporter the Democratic Progressive Party during the campaign had been a little bit ahead in the polls, but this is a ringing victory. At his final rally, supporters turned out to give a last boisterous endorsement to their man. Lai ching te, now taiwans next president. Tonight lai said, we showed the world that taiwan stands on the side of democracy. Thats not going to go down well in beijing. In president Xi Jinpings new Years Speech he repeated his claim that taiwan belongs to china, and will be, as he puts it, reunified. China is rapidly building up and modernizing its military and has refused to rule out the use of force if taiwan wont come quietly. Under president elect lai, it wont. China has called him a dangerous separatist. There was huge Voter Turnout in
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