Taipei: The relationship full of Chinese neighbors dominated Saturday’s election for the leader of Taiwan’s main opposition party.
Four candidates, including Chairperson of Petahana Johnny Chiang, competed for party leadership who had advocated a closer relationship with Beijing.
That means approving Beijing’s request that it considers Taiwan as part of China, something ruled by the Progressive Party of the Taiwan Democrats has refused to do so.
China has threatened to use the power to bring Taiwan under control and has used military, diplomatic and economic pressure in an effort to weaken the administration of President Tsai Ing-Wen and the opinions sway among Taiwanese people, who strongly support the status quo independence de-facto .
Public attention, nationalists have advocated less fierce relations with China, rather than moving directly towards unification between sides, which are bound by economic, linguistic and cultural bonds that are close.
Others who walk are former party chairmen and presidential candidates Eric Chu, Ex-County Head Cho Po-Yuan, and Academic Chang Ya-Chung.
The results are expected to be announced early Saturday night.
The winner can emerge as a party candidate in the next presidential election in 2024, although the election has not yet begun.
Tsai is constitutionally prohibited from running for the third.
Under Chiang Kai-shek, the party rose to power in China during the 1920s and led the struggle against Japanese invaders until the end of World War II.
Chiang relocated the government, still officially known as the Republic of China, to Taiwan in 1949 when Mao Zedong’s communist swept in power in mainland China.
Taiwan began switching from the rules of the martial law to multiparty democracy in the 1980s and held the first direct presidential election in 1996.
Since then, power has shifted between the nationalists, also known as KMT, even though Tsai has won twice by the margin Healthy and his party has control over national legislature.
China refused to recognize the Taiwanese government and ensure it was excluded from the United Nations and other international organizations.
Beijing said the participation of the island in a role such as observers to the World Health Assembly depends on IT supporting the “principle of one-China” and “’92 consensus,” named after the agreement reached the year of representatives from nationalist and communist representatives who stated that the parties were part of the parties from a single Chinese country.
Following the first TSAI election victory in 2016, China cut all formal contacts between the government, prohibiting Chinese tourism groups from visiting the island and installing a campaign to justify the number of Taiwan diplomatic allies.
With increasing frequency, China has also sent a military aircraft into the airspace near Taiwan and conducted threatening military exercises.
Some in response, the US has increased political and military support for the island, despite the lack of formal diplomatic bonds between them.
China’s problem dominates the selection of Taiwan opposition leaders
