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Taiwan: Voters Re-elect President Tsai Ing-wen in Rebuke to Beijing

HeadlineJan 13, 2020

In Taiwan, voters re-elected President Tsai Ing-wen, in a rebuke to Beijing. President Tsai has promised to preserve Taiwan’s sovereignty, even as China has tried to exert more political power over Taiwan. Saturday’s election in Taiwan comes amid months of protests in Hong Kong, where demonstrators are calling for increasing political independence from mainland China.

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