Independence Is A “Poison Hallucination As Useless As Looking For Fish In A Tree,” China Warns Taiwan, After Vote
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
01/17/2016
On Saturday, Taiwan elected its first female President in what’s being billed as a “landmark” vote that returns the DPP to power for the first time in 8 years.
When all of the votes were in, it wasn’t even close. 59-year-old former law professor Tsai Ing-wen captured 56% of the vote while KMT’s Eric Chu managed just 31% in a humiliating defeat for the Nationalists.
DPP also won its first majority in the legislature, grabbing 68 of 113 seats. Previously, KMT held 64 seats.
The election raises immediate questions about the island’s relationship with China. “Although Ms. Tsai has vowed to maintain a broadly stable relationship with mainland China, she remains reticent on specific strategies and has remained ambiguous about the ‘1992 consensus’ which has supported the principle of “one China” although each side has been allowed to interpret it differently,” Goldman wrote, ahead of the ballot. “Her position has been that this is an option for Taiwan, but not the only one.”
Well for Beijing, “one China” is the “only” option as was made abundantly clear earlier this month, when sixteen-year-old pop star Chou Tzu-yu was forced to apologize for waving a Taiwanese flag on a South Korean TV program. “There is only one China,” she said, staring blankly into the camera before promising to behave going forward. “I am proud I am Chinese.”
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