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All eyes will be on Beijing’s reaction to the victory of someone it sees as a hardcore separatist and the issue threatens to further cloud relations with the US. ....
No. the doesn t date that far back? yes and no- the first doesn t date that far back? yes and no. the first time doesn t date that far back? yes and no. the first time there doesn t date that far back? yes and no. the first time there was - doesn t date that far back? yes and no. the first time there was a - no. the first time there was a presidential election was only 1996, so in that sense, it is very young. but even under authoritarian law, the kmt allowed for local elections and also some form of national elections for some representatives so there was the practice of voting, but of course, yeah, they were sort of limited in terms of the types of people that they could vote for and how the ballots were counted. yes and how they how the ballots were counted. yes and how they would have different parties with very different ideology is putting forward their case to be able to be ruling the self ruled island of taiwan. if we stay with kmt, they are the longest party in taiwan. ....
Reunification with the mainland. he got about 40% of the vote. going into it today, he was almost neck and neck with the main opposition candidate, hou yu-ih of the kuomintang. just a few hours into counting the ballots, hou realize the numbers were not going in his favor. he actually conceded quite early. the third contender conceded within an hour of that. basically, anointing lai as the next president of taiwan. he takes over from who didn t run again because of term limits here, and in winning this, he has made history, because the dpp has now had three consecutive terms in power. but he s selling himself as a 2.0, if we want to call it that, in that he is not going to stray much from the policies that she has set, not in dealing with china hou and not ....
Counting process, butjust in the last few minutes, as you were hearing there from steve and the team in taiwan, kmt, the main opposition party, conceded defeat. their leader congratulated the democratic progressive party s leader, william lai. also in the last few minutes, the tpp, very much younger party, only came on the scene a few years ago, appealed to younger people, they also conceded defeat. let s go back to steve just to bring us right up to date with the latest lines coming out of taiwan. thanks forjoining me back in taipei as the results have been coming in and we are expecting to hear a victory speech by the presidential candidates from the democratic ....
Not failed, he would have lost. the white blue alliance being the kuomintang and the taiwan people s party and the fact they didn t have an alliance going into this election which we spoke about with our previous guest. you mentioned then about the young people of taiwan and william lai having to listen to other voices. william lai having to listen to othervoices. identity william lai having to listen to other voices. identity as well plays a part in all of this, how do you think taiwan sees itself or what can be read into these election results about high taiwan identifies itself? how taiwan? for my generation, for the people who came of age of 2a years ago, taiwanese identity was subversive. it meant saying we won t chinese and we are going to acknowledge a0 years of martial law, we are going to embrace democracy, embrace freedom and i think taiwanese identity has lost that subversive edge for the younger generation who view it as self evident. i was born in taiwan, why wouldn t i ....