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