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In the months ahead, Beijing is expected to dial up its efforts to intimidate Taiwan using familiar coercive tactics including military harassment and economic pressure.
Taiwanese voters handed Taiwan’s pro-sovereignty ruling Democratic Progressive Party, or DPP, a historic victory in the island’s presidential election over the weekend, despite pressure from China. While several democratic countries around the world congratulated DPP’s President-elect Lai Ching-te for his victory Saturday, Beijing claimed the election outcome doesn’t reflect the mainstream public opinion in Taiwan…