TAIPEI: China will not change its position that Taiwan belongs to it and the world will only ever recognise that there is "one China", Beijing said on Sunday (Jan 12) after President Tsai Ing-wen won re-election and said she would not submit to China's threats.
China's ramped up efforts to get democratic Taiwan to accept Beijing's rule under a "one country, two systems" model, as well as anti-government protests in Chinese-ruled Hong Kong, dominated the election campaign.
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Tsai won another four-year term by a landslide, and her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) also gained a majority in parliament.
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Speaking on Saturday after the scale of her victory become clear, Tsai called for talks to resume with China, but said she hoped Beijing understood Taiwan and its people won't submit to intimidation.
China's Foreign Ministry, responding to the vote, said Taiwan was an internal affair for China.
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"No matter what changes there are to the internal situation in Taiwan, the basic fact that there is only one China in the world and Taiwan is part of China will not change," the ministry said in a statement.
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