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Tsai Ing-wen elected Taiwan's first female president
Tsai Ing-wen has been elected
Taiwan's first female president.
Ms Tsai, 59, leads the Democratic
Progressive Party (DPP) that wants independence from China.
In her victory speech, she vowed
to preserve the
status quo in
relations with China, adding Beijing must respect Taiwan's democracy and both
sides must ensure there are no provocations.
China sees the island as a
breakaway province - which it has threatened to take back by force if
necessary.
In her speech, Ms Tsai hailed a
"new era" in Taiwan and pledged to co-operate with other political parties on major
issues.
The will of the Taiwanese people
would be the basis for relations with China, Ms Tsai said.
"I also want to emphasise that both sides of the Taiwanese Strait have a responsibility to find mutually acceptable means of interaction that are based on dignity and reciprocity.
"We must ensure that no
provocations or accidents take place," Ms Tsai said, warning that
"any forms of suppression
will harm the stability of cross-strait relations".
She thanked the US and Japan for
their support and vowed Taiwan would contribute to peace and stability in the region.
Ms Tsai had a commanding lead in
the vote count when Eric Chu of the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) admitted defeat.
Mr Chu congratulated Tsai Ing-wen
and announced he was quitting as KMT head. Taiwan's Premier Mao Chi-kuo also
resigned.
The election came just months
after a historic meeting between the leaders of Taiwan and China.
However, the flagging economy as
well as Taiwan's relationship with China both played a role in the voters'
choice, correspondents
say.
The KMT has been in power for most
of the past 70 years and has overseen
improved relations with Beijing - Ms Tsai's is only the second-ever victory for
the DPP.
The first was by pro-independence advocate Chen Shui-bian;
during his time as president between 2000 and 2008 tensions with China escalated.
Analysis: Cindy Sui, BBC News,
Taipei
The election result marks a
turning point in Taiwan's democracy and relationship with China.
The DPP win means the island is
moving towards a political system in which voters prefer to transfer power from
one party to another, ending decades
of mostly KMT rule.
That could make relations with
China uncertain, because unlike the KMT, the DPP favours Taiwan's independence
and does not recognise the Republic of China (Taiwan's official name) and the
People's Republic of China as part of "one China".
The KMT was the Communists' bitter
enemy during the civil war. It fled to Taiwan after losing the civil war and its charter and leaders still
favour eventual unification.
It remains China's best hope - and perhaps only hope - of peacefully reunifying with Taiwan
Beijing has been closely watching
the elections to gauge
Taiwanese people's sentiments
and what those sentiments will mean for its goal of reunifying with the last inhabited territory - following
Hong Kong and Macau - that it feels was unfairly snatched from it by Japan as a colony in 1895, and
then ruled separately by the KMT after the civil war.
Ms Tsai, a former scholar, has
said she wants to "maintain [the] status quo" with China.
She became chairwoman of the DPP in 2008, after it saw
a string of corruption scandals.
She lost a presidential bid in 2012 but has subsequently led the
party to regional
election victories. She has won increased support from the public partly
because of widespread dissatisfaction over the KMT and President Ma Ying-jeou's
handling of the economy and widening wealth gap.
VOCABULARY
Democratic (adj.)
based on the principles of democracy:
Democracy
(n.)
the belief in freedom and equality between
people, or a system of government based on this belief,
in which power is either
held by elected representatives or directly by the
people themselves:
preserve (v.)
to keep something as it is, especially in order to prevent it from decaying or being damaged or destroyed:
provocations. (n.)
an action or statement that is intended to make someone angry:
pledge (n.)
a serious or formal promise, especially one
to give money or to be a
friend, or something that you give as a sign that you will keep a promise:
Strait (n.)
[C usually
plural] a narrow area of sea that connects two largerareas of sea:
a difficult situation, especially because
of financial problems:
dignity (n.)
the importance and value that a person has, that makes other people respect them or
makes them respect themselves:
calm,
serious, and controlled behaviour that
makes peoplerespect you:
reciprocity.(n.)
behaviour in
which two people or groups of people give each other help and advantages
suppression (n.)
the act of ending something by force
the act of preventing something
from being seen or expressed or from operating:
contribute (v.)
to give something,
especially money, in order to provide or achieve something together with other people:
to write articles for a newspaper,
magazine,
or book:
correspondents (n.)
a person employed by a newspaper,
a television station,
etc. to report on a particular subject or send reports from a foreign country:
overseen (v.)
to watch or organize a job or an activity to make certain that it is being done correctly:
advocate (v.)
to publicly support or suggest an idea, development, or way of doing something:
escalated. (v.)
to become or make something become greater or more serious:
decades (n.)
a period of ten years, especially a period such as 2010 to 2019
fled (flee) (v.)
to escape by running away, especially because of
danger or fear:
to quickly go to another country in order to escape from something or someone:
charter (n.)
a formal statement of the rights of a country's people, or
of an organization or a particular social group, that
is agreedby or
demanded from a ruler or government:
unification (n.)
the forming of
a single thing
by bringing together
separateparts:
reunifying (v.)
to join together
into one country, parts of
a country that
were divided
gauge (v.)
to calculate an amount, especially by using a measuringdevice:
to make a judgment about
something, usually people's feelings:
sentiments (n.)
a thought, opinion, or idea based on
a feelingabout a situation, or a way of thinking about
something:
gentle feelings such
as sympathy, love, etc., especially when considered to be silly or
not suitable:
inhabited (v.)
territory (n.)
(an area of) land, or sometimes sea, that is considered as belonging to or connected with a particular country or person
an area that an animal or person tries to control or thinksbelongs to them:
snatched (v.)
to take hold of something suddenly and roughly:
to take something or someone away by force:
to do or get something quickly because you
only have a short amount of time:
chairwoman (n.)
a woman in charge of
a meeting or
organization
bid (v.)
to offer a particular amount of money for something that is for sale and compete against other people to buy it, especially at a public sale of goods or property:
If two or more people bid for a job, they compete with each
other to do the work by offering to do it for a
particularamount of money
If someone bids to do
something, they competewith other people to do it:
subsequently (adj.)
happening after
something else:
regional (n.)
a particular area or part of the world,
or any of the largeofficial areas into which a country is divided:
an area of a country, especially one
that has a particularcharacteristic or is known for something:
in the region of = approximately:
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