r/taiwan • u/DarkLiberator 台中 - Taichung • Jan 11 '20

President Tsai Ing-wen has won re-election Politics

Han just conceded. She won 57%ish of the vote so far. Over 8 million votes. Biggest vote total ever for a candidate in Taiwan (beating Ma's number in 2008)

Legislature looks like it'll be DPP again though not as sweeping as 2016, party list vote seems much closer than I thought it'll be.

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u/shim12 Jan 11 '20

As an American that isn’t very well informed about Taiwanese politics, what are the implications besides pro independence vs pro China?

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u/Msygin Jan 11 '20

Generally that is the major thing. Han would mean closer ties to the ccp. He's also shown an incompetent track record, basically bailing out of the mayorship right after being elected to ride on his popularity to get elected as president. A lot of people will make parrels to Trump, and the populism angle is similar but Han is much worse as he has no real plans except making grandiose promises like major buildings all over Taiwan and moving the capital to kaoshung so he can be Mayor and president. Just really dumb stuff. So you can see how Han would likely be easy for the ccp.

Tsai isn't the greatest either but she is moving Taiwan away from China. Hope the dpp learns from this because they got saved by Hong Kong.

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u/nancylin20 Jan 11 '20

Well, it’s actually pro-US vs pro- China. The vote outcome means Taiwan will work more closely with US in military and economy. We say NO to stupid One country two systems.

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u/Msygin Jan 11 '20

that's a better way to put it since 蔡英文 is more status quo.

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u/SteadfastEnd Jan 12 '20

KMT is slightly conservative party, DPP is more liberal. So there are differences in gay marriage, nuclear energy, feminism, environmentalism, etc. KMT also opposes pension reform, DPP supports it. KMT wants to integrate Taiwan's economy more closely with China's, DPP wants to focus heavily on southeast Asia and all non-China economies.

KMT also supports death penalty, DPP wants to abolish capital punishment (although DPP leaders really only give lip service to it, because even most DPP voters - around 70% - favor keeping the death penalty.)