Taiwan Elects US-Friendly President, Defying China Warnings
- The ruling party’s Lai Ching-te secured comfortable victory
- Beijing said the election result won’t change Taiwan’s status
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Taiwan elected current vice president Lai Ching-te as leader of the global chip hub at the center of US-China tensions, putting in power a man Beijing has branded an “instigator of war.”
Lai, of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, sealed victory in the island’s most hotly contested election in decades with 40.1% of the counted vote — the lowest winning percentage since another three-way race in 2000.