Bloomberg News
@Bloomberg-News·2.8M subscribers·40.1K videos
Taiwan Elects US-Friendly President, Defying China Warnings
Posted
January 16, 2024
Views
2,569
Likes
92
Comments
3
Engagement
3.70%
January 16, 2024
2,569
92
3
3.70%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
0:50Now PlayingTaiwan 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.
His victory over opposition parties willing to restart dialogue with China dealt a blow to Beijing’s ambitions to have greater influence over the island it considers a breakaway province. The Kuomintang’s Hou Yu-ih trailed in second place, while the Taiwan People’s Party came last.
“We are telling the international community that between democracy and authoritarianism, we will stand on the side of democracy,” Lai declared at a victory rally in Taipei on Saturday night, to rounds of rapturous applause from the crowd.
Taiwan’s next president also vowed to keep peace across the Taiwan Strait, while pledging continued strong ties with major democracies — illustrating the delicate balancing act he has ahead to maintain interactions with Washington while avoiding tensions with Beijing flaring into a conflict.
--------
Subscribe to our YouTube channel
Subscribe to Bloomberg Originals
Bloomberg Quicktake brings you global social video spanning business, technology, politics and culture. Make sense of the stories changing your business and your world.
Connect with us on…
Breaking News on YouTube
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
