China unlikely to ease pressure on Taiwan despite Tsai’s landslide win
Analysts say China is unlikely to ease its campaign to isolate Taiwan despite President Tsai Ing-wen's landslide re-election, which is seen as a sharp rebuke to Beijing. – EPA pic, January 12, 2020.
CHINA’S campaign to isolate Taiwan has backfired spectacularly, with voters handing President Tsai Ing-wen a landslide second term – but authoritarian Beijing is unlikely to abandon its diplomatic cudgel anytime soon, analysts say. Tsai’s re-election yesterday with a record 8.2 million votes, or 57%, was a forceful rebuke of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s push to heap economic and diplomatic pressure on the self-ruled island.
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