Welp, the Taiwanese gave China the middle finger and reelected ruling DPP

[sdifox]

Taiwan just reelected the ruling party DPP to the presidency. Outgoing president Tsai Ing Wen was not eligible to run due to term limit. New president was her VP.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/polls-open-taiwans-critical-elections-watched-closely-by-china-2024-01-13/

 

[Grabo]

Yess!! Go continued democracy! Don't kneel and be overrun (mentally) by the big bully!

 

[K1052]

Good.

 

[Thump553]

Not a huge mandate (got about 40% of the vote and doesn't have a majority in the legislature) but pretty massive turnout (75%) (massive compared to the USA) with voting and election processes running smoothly and all losers conceding graciously. We could learn a lot of lessons from them. Hopefully they don't become another puppet state of Red China.

 

[kage69]

Yeah nice to see. Was the hoping the middle fingers to dictators would continue. Xi Xinping can resolutely eat democracy's balls. Nom nom nom.

 

[sdifox]

Not a huge mandate (got about 40% of the vote and doesn't have a majority in the legislature) but pretty massive turnout (75%) (massive compared to the USA) with voting and election processes running smoothly and all losers conceding graciously. We could learn a lot of lessons from them. Hopefully they don't become another puppet state of Red China.

I think of it as democracy progressing to allow a third choice.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

After seeing what Beijing did to Hong Kong, WTF would Taiwan ever want to reconcile with the CCP?