“No matter what changes there are to the internal situation in Taiwan, the basic fact that there is only one China in the world and Taiwan is part of China will not change,” China’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement, responding to the result. While China says Taiwan is its territory, Taiwan maintains it is an independent country called the Republic of China, its formal name. Tsai, who has firmly rejected China’s “one country, two systems” model, won another four-year term by a landslide, and her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) secured a majority in parliament. China will not change its stance sticking to the “one China” principle and opposing independence for Taiwan, the Chinese foreign ministry said. In the ruling Communist Party’s official People’s Daily this month, he wrote that people in Taiwan were “positively exploring” the “one country, two systems” model, but offered no evidence.

Source: National Post January 12, 2020 02:37 UTC