Lai Ching-te, branded threat to peace by China, wins Taiwan vote

  • 8 months ago
After voters defied warnings from Beijing and swept him to victory, Taiwan's president-elect Lai Ching-te vows to defend the self-ruled island from "intimidation" from China. Lai -- branded by Beijing as a threat to peace in the flashpoint region -- pitched himself as the defender of Taiwan's democratic way of life, but now has to navigate increasingly turbulent relations with communist China.
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01:00 - Let us use our warmest applause
01:02 to welcome the next president.
01:04 I'll just make a quick clarification
01:05 on a mistranslation that was made.
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01:09 First of all, you talked about uniting the society
01:13 so that we--
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