@chintai80
Hey Taiwan just held its presidential election in the weekend, the pro-independence party received a record breaking votes (817M vs the old record of 765M by an ex-god Mr Ma) and still managed to win a stable majority at the parliament. They looked done after losing 70% of the cities and polling at 20% vs 50% only 10 months ago.
CCP put so much effort into this campaign i.e. forcing milk tea companies to declare One China Policy, banning Chinese groups and freelance tourists, kicking Taiwanese disabled groups etc out of international conferences, flying battle jets around the island, and making several countries cut diplomatic ties. And the result is a record breaking win for the pro-independence party.
My understanding is USA and its allies e.g AUS were more aggressive than usual to help out (or interfere depending on which side you're on) and they foiled a last minute smear attack from the pro-Beijing part which the TW government would have no ability and time to respond properly (the KMT vice-secretary hooked up with a CCP backed CHN business man to persuade that alleged flipped CCP spy who was on AUS TV interview 2 months ago, to tell the world that he was talking s*** and got the money from President Tsai's camp, in exchange for safe return to China and cancelling all debt. The news, texts etc were leaked by AUS mainstream press the night before the planned press conference which was less than 2 days before the vote (I wonder who leaked it lol). So instead of major confusion and President Tsai having to clear her name in 36 hours the narrative became CCP/KMT plan foiled and KMT had to clear themselves. Funny thing was the vice-secretary still held the press conference as planned and said the same things as the leaked report)
Anyway, HK was a huge factor as well and a lot of their folks came out to tell young people to exercise their democratic rights (youngsters are like 9:1 in favor of Tsai this time). Unfortunately there's a video circulating online where a man was thrown off the HK building and the police claimed it was suicide. Apparently the person who took the video was a Filipino caregiver and she's under arrest, but I am too scared to look into any reports for validity, the video is real tho.
