OPINION_ Taiwan election: Voters turn their backs on closer ties with China

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Taiwan election: Voters turn their backs on closer ties with China

By Richard C. Bush
Updated 0146 GMT (0946 HKT) January 17, 2016

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(CNN)_ Taiwan is the only Chinese-speaking society in the world that gives citizens the power to select their leaders through competitive free and fair elections.

Taiwan voters exercised that right Saturday and significantly changed the island's balance of political power.

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), on the progressive side of the spectrum, won the presidency and an absolute majority in the Legislative Yuan, Taiwan's parliament, ousting the more conservative Kuomintang (KMT).



Richard C. Bush


China fears, rightly or wrongly, that the DPP is committed to legal independence from mainland China, and thus poses a challenge to its own objective of ultimate unification.

That could foster political instability between China and Taiwan -- something that Washington does not wish to see.

Lawyer turned politician

DPP chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen won 56.1% of the vote. Originally trained as a lawyer, she has served as the chair of a government agency responsible for relations with Beijing and as a vice premier.

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