William Lai Ching-te from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has won Taiwan’s presidential election.

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    10 months ago

    It’s the pro-Independence democracy party.

    If that’s good or not is subjective. I personally think it’s good.

    To give more perspective, there were 3 choices in the election, move towards being reunited under China, status quo, and move towards gaining independence. So this sends a clear sign of where the population want to continue going despite Chinas recent threats.

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      10 months ago

      Isn’t DPP pro status quo? Ideologically they’re pro-independence, but they’d never risk angering the PRC over it.

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        10 months ago

        Status quo = de facto independence. Is the current position of the ruling DPP.

        For me it’s more like KMT -> unification, TPP -> ???(Ko is purposefully vague about this) and DPP -> states quo but further distance from China