Taiwan: Ruling party candidate Lai Ching-te wins presidential election | DW News

In Taiwan, the ruling party candidate Lai Ching-te has won the presidential election giving his party, the DPP, an unprecedented third term.

Lai took a comfortable lead early in the vote count ahead of his nearest rival in the opposition KMT. China claims Taiwan as its territory and in the run-up to the election called Lai a "dangerous separatist.“ The DPP champions Taiwan's separate identity and rejects Beijing's claims of sovereignty over the island.

For more on this, we talk to Bonnie Glaser. She is the Managing Director for the Indo-Pacific at the German Marshall Fund and joins us from Washington D.C.

And we talk to DW's chief international editor Richard Walker, who joins us from Taiwan's capital Taipei.

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