— of the democratic progressive party for _ of the democratic progressive party for china. cratic progressive party for china-— party for china. it is interesting - party for china. it is interesting to - party for china. it is interesting to look. party for china. it is l interesting to look at party for china. it is - interesting to look at because as strained as the relations are economics are still heavily intertwined. as he mentioned china is the most export market for and in terms of supply chains and investments that are really, really tight and that is persisted despite the fact that the dpp has been in government since 2016. we have seen moves to try and diversify in the away from china toward the south east each and other western economies, but in reality these moves have been really difficult to implement. china isjust really difficult to implement. china is just incredibly important centre of gravity for trade and economic activity for the region and that is true for taiwan. as we look as policy proposals moving forward, he spoke with to provoke this diversificat

elected leadership of the island are a representative of the same ruling pro-american progressive democratic party regarded in beijing as interference in internal affairs. the head of the chinese foreign ministry, wang yi, who is on a working trip to egypt, naturally could not help but talk about the taiwanese issue. taiwan has never been a country, it has not happened in the past and will never happen in the future. taiwan's independence was never possible, it was impossible in the past and it will never be possible in the future. any resident of the island of taiwan who wants to achieve the independence of taiwan must divide the territory of china will be severely punished by history and law. anyone who violates the one china principle in the international community interferes. into china's internal affairs infringes on china's sovereignty and will undoubtedly face opposition the entire chinese people and even the international community. well, regarding the international community, today taiwan’s already few political partners have become even fewer. naura officially announced the severance of

leadership of the island, and this is a representative of the same ruling pro-american progressive democratic party as interference into internal affairs. chinese foreign minister wang yi could not help but talk about the taiwan issue. taiwan has never been a country, it has not happened in the past and it will never happen in the future. taiwan's independence was never possible. this was not possible in the past and it will never be possible in the future. any resident of the island of taiwan who wants to achieve the independence of taiwan must divide the territory of china will be severely punished by history and law. anyone who violates the principle of one china in the international community is interfering in internal affairs china is encroaching on china's sovereignty, and will undoubtedly face opposition from the entire chinese people and even the international community. regarding the international community, today there are already few political partners of taiwan. beijing naturally welcomed this step, and at the same time again drew attention to the victory of the candidate from the progr

some extent about the stability of the mood of the citizens, because the fact that the democratic progressive party managed to retain the office of the president, uh, this is the first such result in history. of the republic of china in taiwan since the beginning of democratic processes, because we also have to remember that it did not happen immediately. today, by the way, is another anniversary of the death of general musachen keisha, the founder of the kuomintang in its current taiwan form, and as you understand, during the reign of chiang kai-shek, there was no such democracy in taiwan. and there was, in principle, a one-party regime of the kuomintang party, but when... "president chenkesha's son jiang qinggo, who you know had soviet experience, was yermalayev in the soviet union, had a russian wife from the soviet union, who became the first lady of taiwan, this such an amazing story, and with all the hatred of the soviet union for taiwan, there was a russian first lady for many years, he started the process of democratization, it ended in the end with the defeat of the kuomintang in the presi

it was a nationwide such party, but the democratic progressive party was created in taiwan itself, and therefore it no longer causes great enthusiasm, but there is an absolutely accurate understanding in both of these leading parties that china must be resisted, and now imagine the fate of these enterprises, uh, what will happen to the world economy, imagine one fine day, china destroys these... enterprises just because missile strikes, bombings, people flee somewhere, not even that they will be destroyed, because people can flee, workers leave the territories, emigrate somewhere, one moment, the next moment, against the people's republic of china and its enterprises are introduced sanctions, so china is returning somewhere in the 70s of the 20th century, to the times when the chinese were making steel in the yards of their... homes, because comrade mao zedong wanted to overtake the united states and the soviet union, it looked comical, but not here and what is the problem, the fact that the chinese economy will return in the 1970s is a small big problem, because in the 1970s it was a

party, conceded defeat. their leader congratulated the democratic progressive party's leader, william lai.ust 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 progressive party william lai shortly. especially after we have had two concession speeches from the other two opposition parties, the kuomintang as well as the tpp, the taiwan people's party. let's set this in some context, i'm joint here on the rooftop by a taiwan historian. albert, give us some context to what we have been seeing. the dpp looking like they are going to have a third successive term as president of taiwan?— president of taiwan? yeah, it is unprecedented. _ president of taiwan? yeah, it is unprecedented. from _ president of taiwan? yeah, it is unprecedented. from 2000 - president of taiwan? yeah, it is unprecedented. from 2000 to l president of taiwan? yeah, it is - unprecedented. from 2000 to 2008, the dpp had two terms and the

the ruling dpj, or democratic progressive party, which has the ruling dpp, or democratic progressive the last eight years, says exactly the opposite. it says it's overdependence on china's economy that is the problem, because that allows beijing to use that dependence as a weapon to put pressure on taiwan. and that's exactly what beijing has been doing, they say, over the last two years, sanctioning different taiwanese companies and businesspeople. they want to see taiwan companies diversify to other places, to southeast asia and to new markets in india and africa. the unemployment rate of southeast asia's largest economy currently sits at 5.3%, and those between the ages of 15—24 make up nearly a fifth of those unemployed in a country of over 275 million people. that's millions of young people struggling to find jobs. all three presidential candidates promised to create newjobs if elected, each in a different way. candidate prabowo subianto says boosting small and medium enterprises, which contribute 61% to the country's gdp, will create 19 million jobs. meanwhile, presidential hopef

the routing democratic progressive party won his election and securing a historic side successive time for the democratic progressive party. and now on the 1st full working day back on the election, we have this, this station of diplomatic ties with now root taking side one. so from different lots of catalyzed down to a total of 12, what this really demonstrates is that beijing strategy of diplomatic, economic and sometimes ministry corrosion that we've seen over the past 8 years under the ruling democratic progressive policy on this time when is likely to continue time one is now last 10 diplomatic allies over the course of the 8 years in a press conference just a few hours ago. now with the deputy foreign minister here in taiwan. he said that china had to use this moment specifically and days off the election. when international attention is on the strength of taiwan, it's democracy to go off to tie one's people. and then he also said that china had used false promises to do a tie one's friends away. he also reiterate to the that he thinks time wants democratic pond, as we'll see thr

represented on the ballot papers today , representatives of the three main pro-american parties. such a democratic progressivein reunification, representatives of the gamindan hou party, he is in favor of dialogue with beijing and building economic relations, well, the third candidate: this is a representative of the kovz labor party, who is also not against building dialogue with beijing, but also the united states, in general, too, in general, responsibly, of course, the residents of taiwan had to make a choice today, which they actually made. i am not happy with the current government, it is corrupt and does not satisfy many of the demands of the people, it is more domineering and i don’t like it, while everything is fine in taiwan, anyone can be a leader, but when problems arise, we change the government, the polls opened at exactly 8 am polling stations, there are 17 of them, you could vote approximately... in person, no absentee ballots, no voting in general, only at the place of registration , and the polling stations themselves have very strict rules, no understandable campaigning, no conversations, e

party broke down, please tell me, mr. dmitry, but what will happen between taiwan and china now, to what extent can it be considered that the victory of the leader of the democratic progressivejust increases the possibilities of force confrontation? i do not think that the possibility of a forceful confrontation is increasing, i still think that all the participants in this triangle, and china, and taiwan, and the united states, are interested in preserving the status quo, moreover, certain informal rules work between them, they . know that certain tough, provocative actions of any of the participants violate this balance and lead to the fact that the system may collapse, which is contrary to the interests of each of these participants, so they will make every effort not to violate such a balance, especially from external radical factors that could change this have not yet been observed. and tell me, when the american delegation led by mrs. nancy pelosi visited taiwan, was it a violation of the rules or not? it was a departure from such rules, yes, but er, between the parties after all, there are such informal channels, such backdoors, yes, and especially they are strong bet

tie one east party scenes tie one became a democracy has managed to win the presidential election 3 times in a row. so that something of a breakthrough for lie and two's democratic progressive party. i did certainly not was trying to want you to see it, his ways labeled lies potty as being a separate, to support a bench on declaring independence, something that lie. and he's bought c team, deny william lives message in his victory speech, and speaking to the price off to the result as being very much we have committed to the states as quote that they don't want to rock the boat. and really it's now kind of over to you to the chinese to see how they might react to that. but there is a kind of interesting ambiguity to this result because it was that way. that's a historic victory for the d p. p. certainly that, but it has come down very significantly from the last election 4 years ago. william live winning on just 40 percent of the vote. and that's partly because it's become a 3 way race. there's a new party in the mix called the g p. p which wants to focus on kind of brenton budget, economic issue. so these are kind of some of the 2 dues that william line now has. first of a

kmt and the tppp, two parties considered friendier to china, they have been conceded this presidential election which really paves the way any minute now for the democratic progressivearty, the dpp which is the party that has held party here in taiwan for the last eight years and now has a new presidential candidate lie ching te to declare victory in this presidential race. it would be an unprecedented third consecutive presidential term for the democratic progressive party and perhaps unprecedented anger from the other side of the taiwan strait from beijing, because they have essentially spent the last zefrld months and years vilifying both the presidential and vice presidential candidate, the vp, candidate was the former u.s. envoy. she is actually sanctioned twice by china and is forbidden from even traveling to mainland china. she is the presumptive vice president if, in fact, the democratic progressive party confirms they have won this election, which is expected to happen any moment now. and the presidential -- the presumptive president-elect also has been basically vilified by bei beijing. essentially what this means is that at the highest levels there will c

the ruling democratic progressive party is candidates, emerges victorious over his 2 opponents for the presidency. is election. we'll set the trajectory for tense relations with china for the next 4 years. also in the program, the u. s. military strikes if you see targets and you haven't for the 2nd day to see leaders 5 to retaliate and warrant that us and british interest and certain have considered legitimate targets. as israel defends itself in court against accusations of genocide and gaza, calls on the international court of justice to throw out except offering his case of germany aims to join the proceedings in support of his route. the pablo found any es, thanks for joining us. in taiwan, the ruling party candidates lodging to has won the presidential election, giving his party to d p. p in unprecedented 3rd term lied, took a comfortable lead early in the vote come to head of his nearest drive. and in the opposition k m t. china claims taiwan as its territory during the run up to the election cold lie a dangerous separatist, the t p. p champions. taiwan separates identity and re

the ruling democratic progressive party's candidate emerges victorious over his 2 opponents for the president's election. we'll set the trajectory for tense relations with china for the next 4 years. also in the program, the us military strikes hooting targets in yemen for a 2nd day with the leaders about or retaliate. and one of the us and british interests are now considered legitimate targets. the next by sir, welcome to the program. in taiwan, the ruling party candidate, lodging tay, has won the presidential election, giving his party the d p. an unprecedented 3rd term logic. a comfortable lead early in the vote count ahead of his nearest rival in the opposition. k empty. china claims taiwan as its territory and in the run up to the election called lie a dangerous separatist. but the p. p champions taiwan separate identity and projects pages claims of sovereignty over the island. or earlier i spoke to bonnie glaser, the managing director of the in the pacific program of the german marshall fund. she explained to us what light ching taste when means for taiwan. well, 1st and foremost, it's a

the ruling democratic progressive party's candidate emerges victories over his 2 opponents for the presidency. his election will set the trajectory for tense relations with china. for the next 4 years, also on the program, the u. s. military strikes, who's the targets in yemen for a 2nd day is the leaders 5 to retaliation boards that us and british interests are now considered legitimate targets the problem phone areas. thanks for joining us. in taiwan, the ruling party, candidate lighting, tazz, one, the presidential election, giving his party the d p. p. an unprecedented 3rd term life took a comfortable lead early in the vote. kent ahead of his nearest drive and in the opposition k empty. china claims taiwan as its territory and in the run up to the election cold lie a dangerous separatist edging also warrant. the vote was a choice between war and peace. so let's go to taiwan and d, w use correspondent james changer joins me from the governing the p. p. party headquarters in taipei. james, great to see again. so celebrations. and i'm assuming it's so it means that the d. p. p. i headquarter

the routing democratic progressive party's candidate emerges victorious over his 2 opponents for the presidency. is election. we'll set the trajectory for tense relations with the china for the next 4 years. also on the program, the u. s. military strikes who the targets in yemen for a 2nd day. the seat eaters back to retaliation born, the us and british interests are not considered a legitimate target. the public funding. yes, thanks for joining us. in taiwan, the ruling party candidate lighting tax has won the presidential election, giving his party to ftp and on president of 3rd term lie took a comfortable lead early in the vote times ahead of his nearest drive and the opposition k m t. china claims taiwan as its territory and in the run up to the election cold lie a dangerous separatist, the d p. p champions taiwan separate identity and rejects by want by page things kinds of sovereignty over the island or or dw chase. international editor richard walker was that the governing d p. p. party headquarters in taipei and told us had the party reactive to its way public. i mean, i hav

the routing democratic progressive party's candidate emerges victorious over his 2 opponents for the presidency his election. we'll set the trajectory for tense relations with china for the next 4 years. also on the program, the u. s. military strikes here at the targets in yemen for a 2nd day in theaters 5 to retaliate and warn dash us and british interests are now considered legitimate targets the fine pablo fell. yes, thanks for joining us. in taiwan, the ruling party candidates liking to has won the presidential election, giving his party the d p. an unprecedented 3rd term life took a comfortable lead early in the vote times had of his nearest rival. in the opposition k m t. china claims taiwan as its territory and in the run up to the election, hold like a dangerous separatist. beijing also will warrant the vote was a choice between war and peace. let's go to taiwan now and dw as chief international editor. richard walker joins me from the governing party headquarters in taipei. richard, great to see you. so tell us highlighting tag and his party have reacted to darwin . yeah. i

according to the results of the presidential elections, as actually predicted. from the democratic progressive partythe ruling party in taiwan today won. laitsende, the traditional democratic progressive party advocates for taiwan's independence and its eventual proclamation as the independent state of taiwan, rather than the republic of china, as it is officially called myself since the middle of the second half, even the first half. xx century, but on the other hand, according to the results of parliamentary elections, this democratic progressive party was defeated, and its number of seats in parliament decreased from 61 to 51, but the guomendang party, which stands for an undivided china, won, in any case for an undivided china, and the kuomendang members very significantly increased their representation in... yuania, from 38 to 52 seats, is the name of the taiwanese parliament. this means that leitzend himself, who back in 2017 promised to proclaim the case of which is the independence of taiwan. taiwan is now speaking much more cautiously following the results of its victory, saying that it rea

this time showed that the democratic progressive party does not represent the mainstream public opinion on the island. taiwan is china. is taiwan, the selection cannot change the basic pattern in development direction of cross straight relations. nor can it change the common desire of compatriots on both sides of the street to get closer and closer. nor can it stop the general trend that the mother land will eventually and inevitably be re unified times a lot more crossing now to i know time going to a senior fellow at the time institute. the thing to go, i know it's always great to get you on the program before we get into what is essentially your specialty, cuz i love it when you talked to your politics. i just want to start off by saying that obviously the democratic progressive party winning the presidential election in taiwan just 40 percent of the vote. it has lost the majority in parliament. does not tell you anything i know are about, i guess the overall sentiment on the island or how did he read it? well last election they had a clear majority in the parliament and they also ha

just 2 days until elections and taiwan at 3 parties are gearing up for a showdown that will shape the islands relations with china. the ruling democratic progressive party are leading the polls. they've used to their time and power to strength and ties with the us. they're facing the opposition nationalist party that wants to build stronger relations with beijing. a many voters are more concerned with economic problems. of the tie one people's party has joined the race focus on issues like affordable housing and job security. and both the presidency and the legislature are up for grabs. do you have these, james tater met. some of the candidates were running for office this morning. rosellan inside pain and today of campaigning has begun early that some boy you and that's the place of candidates for ty, ones, routing party, the democratic progress of to h, as in power policy is bidding for historic stud successive time in office. they say all position policies would be too soft on china and say, this selection is fundamentally a choice between paging. let dictate to ship um 2 more. so this is a grocery deployment needs democracy. they say, hold off

that means every political party other than the winning democratic progressive party probably, but there were no new threats in the statement that was issued by the taiwan affairs office in beijing. it is probably a placeholder, so we'll have to see what steps they take in the weeks and months to come. >> the u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken says he is looking forward to working with dr. lai ching te after te won the election. what does that say or how is that received in china? >> i think china expects nothing less than that the united states will continue to strengthen ties with taiwan. i would also note that president biden had a statement, as well. what he said was a reaffirmation of u.s. policy, that the united states does not support taiwan independence. that's a message that china has heard before, doesn't necessarily think that it is credible, but it is important for them to hear. i think it does, to some extent, reduce the possibility that they will react very strongly in the near term. i think it was intended to reassure. >> in what way might it be an obstacle between th

understood it correctly, well, not everything is so simple, because the kuomintang party and the democratic progressive party entered the parliament with almost equal forces, with the same by votes, 51 for the current ruling party against 52 for the kuomintang, plus eight votes for the party that called for the middle ground. to the position that is between, between those two extreme points, and non-party members still have two votes, that is, there is no power in the majority in the parliament, and therefore for the president the current adoption of... some legislative initiatives will be resisted by the fact that there is an opposition party, which certain these solutions will block. that is, well, we see that within taiwan there will be some means of such a balance. and now i want to draw attention to the fact that what each of the candidates proposed, so that we can understand the mood in taiwan. the most important thing, if you look at everyone's program, the first point was status preservation. this means that the island of taiwan , the taiwanese, they have a request to maintain the current statu

we had a few days ago a message china sing a vote for the democratic progressive party would be a vote. it was a clear indication that the dislike china has for that party. and the presidential nominee for the party, he is seen as a successor to the current president and would continue the policies of the dpp and something china does not want to encourage. the main opposition party is to rule in taiwan. they have been pushing for a closer relationship with china and seek to de-escalate the tensions taiwan has had over the last few years i want to focus on the economy and trade. the taiwan people's party, the third party that formed three or four years ago, this is their first selection they will be contesting in, they are looking to be the middle ground candidate to sit in between the other two parties and they want to do that by pushing for deterrents against china but diplomacy with china pushing for a more pragmatic approach to how they can progress taiwan go forward. anchor: ok. thank you indeed for joining us. now let's check in on some other news around the world. u.s. citizens t

she ran as a candidate for the democratic progressive party. its leader was the 1st time on these head of government to offer an official apology. it to the country's indigenous inhabitants and to recognize their importance to taiwan sense itself. does the jingle or to much you'll sit by the one in the timeliness of shape to new identity, out of these 400 years of history with its unique cultural, religious, unlink, mystic, bland, all way of life. even off cuisine is a product of these $400.00 is the interesting part of the incidents with us, utica and bodies. this new taiwanese identity open, inclusive, and democratic. that's a provocation for beijing. the it also represents a break with the traditional self image of taiwan as pronounced by chiang kai shek . his national memorial hall stands in the center of the capital type pay the these days. there's still a ritual changing of the guard here that the dictators legacy is a controversial one. the born in 1887 and the chinese province south of shanghai. chiang kai shek became the leader of the

wins the presidential elections in taiwan. the chairman of the pro-western democratic progressive party gains 40.1% of the vote, in second place is houyou from the kuomintang, who advocates rapprochement with china, with 33.5%. in third place is the candidate from the centrists and the taiwan people's party, ke wenja, 26.5%. the winner, as you understand, is the most pro-western candidate of all, and for the third election in a row, the current president tsai ing-wen from the same pro-western party a party that...consistently advocates taiwan's independence from china, and this is the best option for washington and bad for beijing. at the same time, the most dangerous option from the point of view of china’s invasion of taiwan into its own region and its forceful annexation. let me remind you that in his new year's address, xiding ping threatened taiwan with the inevitable reunification, thus trying to influence the election results. taiwan has decided to follow... taiwan is an inseparable part of china and will definitely return to the country. apparently that's why biden's first call

taiwan's ruling party, the democratic progressive, party or dpp, the presidential front runner -- >>are determined to safeguard peace and stability in the taiwan straight. >> presidential candidate and current vice president -- running alongside taiwan's former u.s. envoy, a -- openly despised by beijing. he says deterrence is the only way to defend taiwan from a chinese takeover, a message that seems to resonate with many in this crowd. and, a message that infuriates china. -- beijing broke off talks with taipei when taiwan in 2016 where a landslide reelection in 2020, during the eight year, president u.s. tele-hasse on hitting new highs, across straight ties tanking. tensions really boiling over. hi once -- claiming a hawaiian, and the u.s., closer and closer to a catastrophic cross strait conflict. plans for a joint ticket collapsed on live tv, giving the ruling party a slight edge mckay emptied candidate -- seen as a friendly year to china, calling for more cross strait to diplomacy and trade. >> do not use hatred to create confrontation and division me. >> taiwan people's party,

and the party, the democratic progressive party is more pro-independence, but less inclined to buildr relationship with the mainland. that is the opposite of the dominant party who has been in power for decades after the world war. the second of -- the sentiments of the island is tipped away from the mainland and closer to the western world. host: the pressure you are talking about, there is a lot of pressure from china -- from china and the taiwanese people to go in a different direction. and they rebuked that. guest: china has an incentive to move the island closer to the mainland for the reason that if beijing feels the need to really force reunification, it will be easier to do that. and people feel that about the mainland which is now why it is getting harder. what is most interesting is that even the fact of having an election in taiwan is not something even covered in domestic media in china because of the fact that taiwan, the ccp always tries to motivate or rationalize its rule of the country by saying that democracy does not work for the chinese people. it is working for th

democrats. have the progressives hijacked democratic party? probably to the extent that i would suggest the freedom caucus and trump has hijacked the republican party. it is not true that democrats would not and will not devote for border controls. as you know now, the president and many democrats want to do that because it is a problem and because it is a political problem for them. it is not actually true. but, you are right. take a look at the democratic-controlled senate. they have had years to have hearings on this and to come up with a good proposal on border. you may not like their proposal, that could be there starting position for the negotiations. they have not even done anything. they have just ignored the issue because they know the issue will divide their party, so they just do not bring it up. this fixation on party unity. we won't talk about anything that jeopardizes party unity. if you won't talk about anything that jeopardizes party unity, you are not when you talk about anything important. anything that is important and hard

parties and their candidates. we've heard about the centre—left and us—friendly democratic progressive party or dpp, which has rulede just mentioned, its candidate is current vice president lai ching—te — also known as william lai. there's the more conservative and beijing—friendly kuomintang, or kmt. its candidate is new taipei city mayor hou yu—ih. he's promised to boost the island's defences while restarting talks with beijing. there's also the smaller taiwan people's party, or tpp, which lies somewhere between both parties on the political spectrum. their candidate is former taipei mayor ko wen—je. joining me is our asia digital reporter tessa wong. taiwan prides itself as having a vibrant democracy and an engaged electorate. you don't have to go far to see political dialogue, debate and disagreements all play out in the media and in public forums. but that openness also means that it can be vulnerable to disinformation. joining me is our asia digital reporter tessa wong. tessa, great to have you with me up here. let's focus on this information with regards to the taiwan election. what does that mean? set the c

mr lai, who represents the democratic progressive party, won 40% of the vote, beating the other two opponentsn. he has broken new ground, winning an unprecedented third consecutive presidential term for his party. but the win could also increase tensions with china, who have called mr lai a troublemaker and separtist. china considers taiwan a part of its territory and has been calling for a "peaceful reunification" but has not ruled out the use of force. in recent months the country has ramped up its military presence on the island, heightening fears of a possible conflict. rupert wingfield—hayes has more, from the taiwanese capital, taipei. it had cast the taiwan election as a choice

taiwan's ruling party, a democratic progressive party, or dpp, the presidential front-runner. >> we aredetermined to safeguard peace and stability in the taiwan strait. >> reporter: presidential candidate and current vice president lai ching-te running alongside taiwan's u.s. envoy, a ticket openly despised by beijing. lai says deterrence is the only way to deter china from a taiwan takeover, and message that seems to resonate with many in this crowd. and a message that infuriates china. lai promises to continue the policies of taiwan's two-term president tsai ing-wen. a landslide re-election in 2020 fueled in part by fears of taiwan becoming the next hong kong. during tsai's eight-year presidency u.s.-taiwan ties and arms sales hitting new highs. cross strait ties tanking, tensions boiling over. taiwan's two main opposition parties call it a dangerous path, claiming it pulls taiwan, china, and the u.s. closer and closer to a catastrophic cross strait conflict. plans for a joint ticket collapsed on live tv, giving the ruling party a slight edge. kuomintang seen as friendlier to china. >

the chairman of the pro-western democratic progressive party received 40% of the votes, followed by hou yui, from gomendano. who advocates rapprochement with china, 33.5%, in third, the centrist candidate of the people's party of taiwan kovinje 26.5%, but that is, as you understand, the most pro-western candidate of all wins, and for the third election in a row the current president of anb is not from the same pro-western party, which consistently advocates the independence of taiwan from china, this is... the best option, of course, for washington and the worst option for beijing. at the same time, this is the most dangerous option from the point of view of china's invasion of taiwan and its forceful reunification. let me remind you that in his new year's address, silzen ping threatened taiwan with the inevitable reunification, probably trying to influence the election results in this way, but it did not help; taiwan decided to follow the ukrainian path. the path is obviously to the chinese foreign ministry. they once again stated that the elections will not be recognized, and taiwan i

if we start with the ruling party, the party that is in power at the moment, the democratic progressiveion cycles, eight years. since they have come into power they have had a more antagonistic relationship with china. they have seen a lot more confrontation and a strong language coming out of china as they have been leaning towards a more self—determined future away from china's influence. you may recall nancy pelosi's visit, the former house speaker, coming over and they welcomed her with open arms and that triggered a lot of reaction from china and in the taiwan strait with military exercises and the like, so they are not liked by china at all. president tsai ing—wen of the leader of the democratic progressive party, she cannot run anymore, she has had her 2—term limit already. william lai, hervice 2—term limit already. william lai, her vice president at the moment, he is running for the top ticket and has vowed to continue the policies that tsai ing—wen has championed. china does not like that and china say that a vote for the dbp is akin to a vote for war, a clear indication that t

to some extent about the stability of the mood of the citizens, because that's what the democratic progressive partyintain. the post of president for himself, uh, that's it the first such result in the history of the republic of china in taiwan since the beginning of democratic processes, because we also have to remember that it did not happen immediately, today, by the way, is another anniversary of the death of general musachenkaisha, the founder of the kuomintang in its current taiwanese form, and how you understand, during changkaisha's reign, no such...

the party's strength is approximately equal to the united states, supporting the democratic progressivety, which is now in power, their candidates or william lai, the incumbent. deputy head of administration, studied in the states, harvard graduate, built his election campaign on the principle “america is the main ally.” the election race showed that he collects more than a third of the votes, but there are two serious pursuers nearby, the closest of which from the gamindan huyu party is gaining the same 30%. the third candidate from the taiwan people's party kvndje has the greatest support among young people. there was a fight for every vote and lai began to attack his opponents. accuse of intimidating voters with war and pro-communist views, which is nonsense from a historical point of view, because the kuomintang government lost to the chinese communist party in 1949 and fled from the communists to taiwan. i strongly oppose taiwan's independence, but i also oppose one country, two systems, i firmly defend taiwan's democracy and freedom, this is the middle the path taiwan should take.

and the vote stole of the democratic progressive party when a 3rd time in panama, but failed to gain a majority in parliament. several countries including the u. s. u k, and japan and congratulated a lodging town. his victory weight, just 40 percent of the vote, secured him the top spot. so china has reiterated that it's stones on tie. one will not change the results of the 2 elections in taiwan. this time showed that the democratic progressive party does not represent the mainstream public opinion on the island. taiwan is china, is taiwan. the selection cannot change the basic pattern and development direction of cross straight relations, nor can it change the common desire of compatriots on both sides of the street to get closer and closer. nor can it stop the general trend that the mother lead will eventually and inevitably be, were unified. more now of course, you will have to want to contribute a college, i'll call it a great to have you on the program. thanks so much for joining us here. yeah. okay, so it, okay, it's, it's early days yet regarding the results of the vote and wh

and the road sold the democratic progressive party when they fill the tub and palate, but fail to gain a majority in parliament. several countries including america, the u. k, and japan congratulate the lights and pay on his victory weight. just 40 percent of the vote secured him the top spot. the china has reiterated that it stands on taiwan, will not change the results of the 2 elections in taiwan. this time showed that the democratic progressive party does not represent the mainstream public opinion on the island. taiwan is china, is taiwan. the selection cannot change the basic pattern and development direction of cross straight relations. nor can it change the common desire of compatriots on both sides of the street to get closer and closer. nor can it stop the general trends that the motherland will eventually and inevitably be re unified, both at the p p that one and the physician part of k a t. they're basically status quote. part of given this, the presidential candidate light shouldn't do. it has faded just before the election. you said, well, there's no need to declare hi, w

of the island's administration, according to preliminary data , the candidate from the democratic progressive partyalready announced his readiness to negotiate with beijing, but on his own terms. in turn, the official representative of the office of the state council of the people's republic of china for taiwan affairs, chen binhua, said that the past elections showed that the democratic progressive party does not represent the main opinion on the island. the chinese representative also noted that... beijing will resolutely oppose actions aimed at achieving taiwan's independence by the intervention of external forces. i would like to note the interest of the whole world in these elections; it depends on them whether the situation around the island, which the united states considers a pawn, is pumping up weapons in its game, the speaker of the us house of representatives will stabilize. our country firmly supports the one-china principle, which is the key to stability and sustainable development of the entire region, the belarusian foreign ministry said. any actions by third forces aimed at influenc

its territory and that won't change even as the island's ruling party celebrates a historic election victory. the democratic progressive party clinched a third consecutive victory with 40% of the toogs votes. china had warned taiwan that democratic progressive win could increase the risk of conflict. but voters shrugged off those thoughts making lai ching te their president. >> we believe we can choose our own president. >> will ripley is joining us from taipei. so take us through the results and the reaction. >> reporter: one of the things that lay whichi ching te told v china would be essentially choosing their chief executive of a company that has to report to china. the will of the people negligible. and taiwanese saying they don't accept that. or at least the voters that vote for the democratic progressive party. rarely falling on the taiwanese ka capital, but a blizzard of confetti. on the losing side, calls for unity as taipei braces for beijing's brewing storm. >> most important part for me is our relationship with china. and we've been bullied for years on end. i just can't stand kneeling down to their demands

this time showed that the democratic progressive party does not represent the mainstream public opinion on the island. taiwan is china's type one. the selection cannot change the basic pattern and development direction of cross straight relations. nor can it change the common desire of compatriots on both sides of the street to get closer and closer. nor can it stop the general trend that the mother lead will eventually and inevitably be re unified both at the p p that one and the position part of k a t. they're basically status quote. part of given the, the presidential candidate light shouldn't do. it has stated just before the election, you said, well there's no need to declare i when you dependents, because we have like a china on the tie. why me? it is already dependent, which is really saying that he's not going to start off the water. and let's face it, whatever high one does the, has to be as explicit. go ahead. an approval for washington right now. washington is in broyles, already on a team from work. one of proxy worthington, ukraine, advanced russia. another right now a to u

parties involved in the election tomorrow. wejust involved in the election tomorrow. we just told you about the centre—left us friendly democratic progressived taiwan for eight years. it's candidate is the current vice president known as william lai. the more conservative beijing friendly party, the kmt, their candidate has promised to boost island defences while restarting talks with beijing. and also these smaller taiwan's people party which lies somewhere between both parties on the political spectrum. and if we focus now on taiwan's relationship with china, our correspondent has been speaking to people in the province closes to the self—governing island. bracing themselves against briskjanuary wins. in reality, see fog clouds their view. undeterred, they make the most of their visit. this is as close as they can get to taiwan. they are banned from travelling to the self governed island which beijing claims as its territory, and has vowed to take one day. translation: my biggest wish after visiting here is that i hope the island of taiwan can return to our motherland soon. even if taiwan is taken back, i hope it's done via peaceful negot

i think you would see a more progressive democratic party okay so now you have a more progressive democraticre aggressive -- excuse me, more conservative and natio nationalistic party, and the question is how we get through this in a way where we have sensible governance or do we have irreconcilable differences over everything. it's not just money. taxes will enter into it the taxes that will come out of this, and protectionism, nationalism, support for other countries, all of that will be different, and also it has to do with even how you raise your children in terms of these types of balances. >> boil that down to an investor's point of view if you don't like the payment you are getting for u.s. payments, what do you do >> do you know what your neutral position is? i find that the markets right now are not either super attractive or super unattractive, generally speaking aside from the politics, so you will come into the environment where there will be greater risks taking that factor and the world factor >> right >> so what is your neutral position i have neutral portfolio, okay, and it's

but listen, i don't think any democratic progressive party candidate would be any more welcome, and the relationship has been rather tense over the past eight years, and that tsai ing—wen presidency, sol think we can anticipate that that would continue with a william lai presidency. china's president xi, in his new year's address, reiterated that quote "reunification" with taiwan was inevitable. how heavily does the china factor weigh on this election, versus domestic bread and butter issues? i think it's very important for this election. we saw with the recent debates that there was a lot of focus on the cross trade relationship, what sort of relationship, what sort of relationship time should have with the prc - relationship time should have with the prc — whereas with previous election campaigns or debates, they were more focused on domestic issues. so i think people are very, very focused on how this outcome could affect the cross trade relationship.— could affect the cross trade relationship. could affect the cross trade relationshi -. ., . , ., relationship. now there are question

the it is and we've had the democratic progressive party, the ruling policy. and ty, one accused trying of interference, as has the united states. and china has angrily rubbish. those claims dismissing it, china is also angry that the us is at times to send an official delegation to, to like pay off to the elections china. and since that time, one is the pause of china that any official contact to us in taiwan goes against the one china policy. and that this whole election is an internal chinese affair. now, getting a sort of idea of what people here in, on the main line think about the election is always difficult because the nation environment just so tightly sensitive and controlled. however, we did speak to while drive it on the way here be awesome. what he thought about the poles, and he said that he was simply in difference. he believed that it didn't really matter who was on top in taiwan because china could simply take tie one back at any time. and it was only not doing so now because it wanted to avoid a war. now obviously, that doesn't represent the