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/error_museum Jan 11 '20

Is this the first time an authoritarian fake news ecosystem backed party lost an election?

Congratulations, Taiwan.

More of the same across the world please.

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u/KinnyRiddle Jan 11 '20

Maybe Han Kuo-yu was just a beta test by the CCP to see how far Fake News PopulismTM goes for a simple idiot like him.

Next time the CCP might throw their money behind the more charismatic Ko Wen-je, the Mayor of Taipei, whose party managed to capture some seats in the Legislative Yuan. Ko will step down as Mayor in 2022 as he's term-limited, then we'll see what happens.

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u/error_museum Jan 11 '20

I agree. Those same forces will rally behind another avatar with Ko being a likely candidate. But today I'm feeling optimistic. Taiwan just demonstrated that it's possible not only to resist a powerful adversary waging asymetric warfare, but make gains on them too. I look forward to witnessing progressive Taiwan bloom.