Taiwan urges China to ‘face reality’ after voters select pro-sovereignty candidate Lai Ching-te as president

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After voters rejected Beijing’s admonitions and selected pro-sovereignty candidate Lai Ching-te as president, Taiwan on Sunday urged Beijing to “face reality” and accept the outcome of the election. Beijing’s repeated pleas for voters not to support Lai were met with a resounding win for the man the country’s ruling Communist Party views as a dangerous separatist. In response to Lai’s triumph, Beijing, which maintains Taiwan as its territory and has never given up using force to annex the island, said that it will not budge from the “inevitable trend of China’s reunification”. The island’s foreign ministry instructed Beijing to accept...