Taiwanese voters have re-elected incumbent president Tsai Ing-Wen in a landslide election that serves as a sharp rebuke to Beijing and its attempts to intimidate and cajole Taiwan into China’s fold. Tsai’s party also maintained its majority of seats in the legislature. In the run-up to the election, China twice sailed its new aircraft carrier through the Taiwan strait. The Guardian view on Taiwan’s election: an extraordinary comeback – then what? “We can’t see the real information, so the election results in Taiwan and Hong Kong are always unexpected,” one wrote.

Source: The Guardian January 11, 2020 13:20 UTC