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TAIPEI– China dismissed the result of Taiwan’s Saturday elections, stating its judgment Democratic Progressive Party does not represent traditional popular opinion after it stopped working to win a bulk in the governmental and legal votes.
“Taiwan is China’s Taiwan,” Chen Binhua, the representative for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, stated on Saturday after DPP’s Lai Ching- te became the winner of the independent island’s governmental contest with more than 40% of the popular vote.
“This election cannot change the basic pattern and the development of cross-Strait relations, nor can it change the common desire of compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to draw closer,” Chen included, according to a CNBC translation of a report from Xinhua, the main state news company.
Beijing has actually framed the self-ruled island’s election as an option in between “peace and war, prosperity and decline”– with Chinese President Xi Jinping concerning reunification with the mainland “a historical inevitability.” Beijing has actually consistently identified Lai as a “stubborn worker for Taiwan independence” and a harmful separatist.
China has actually never ever relinquished its claim over Taiwan– which has actually been independent because the Chinese Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang, left to the island following its defeat in the Chinese civil war in 1949.
The result of Taiwan’s governmental and legal elections will likely form China’s posture towards the island, while likewise affecting China- U.S. relations and security in the wider Indo-Pacific area.
