China Failed to Sway Taiwan s Election. What Happens Now? – The New York Times

China s leader, Xi Jinping, has tied his country s great power status to a singular promise: unifying the motherland with Taiwan, which the Chinese Communist Party sees as sacred, lost territory. A few weeks ago, Mr. Xi called this a historical inevitability.

But Taiwan s election on Saturday, handing the presidency to a party that promotes the island s separate identity for the third time in a row, confirmed that this boisterous democracy has moved even further away from China and its dream of unification.

After a campaign of festival-like rallies, where huge crowds shouted, danced and waved matching flags, Taiwan s voters ignored China s warnings that a vote for the Democratic Progressive Party was a vote for war. They made that choice anyway.

via www.nytimes.com

Those darn Taiwanese. Acting like they like democracy or something. As humans will do.