International eyes were on Taiwan over the weekend as the island’s voters went with a president who is against China taking over their republic and rejected his opponent, who ran on the communist threat that if they spurned him, Taiwan would be invaded. The nation’s existence as a democracy is vital to international commerce since it is responsible for producing 90% of the computer chips that make the modern world possible.
Vice President Lai Ching-te of the Democratic Progressive Party handily defeated his chief opponent, Hou Yu-ih, who had the full backing of the Communist China Party (CCP), which considers its prosperous neighbor its own province. China President Xi Jinping ramped up military exercises and threats to invade Taiwan in advance of the election as Lai Ching-te is expected to continue the war preparations of his predecessor.
“It is a total victory for not only the people in Taiwan but for all the democracies around the world,” said Nicole Tsai of the New Federal State of China, an international group fighting to free the world’s second most populous nation from communist rule. “Despite all of the CCP’s military intimidation, economic coercion, and influence peddling campaign, the Taiwanese people voted in Beijing’s most hated candidate. He stands for Taiwan’s independence from the CCP’s control and manipulation.”
Speaking on the War Room with Steve Bannon, Tsai said Xi Jinping has blocked all news about the election results. Nevertheless, average citizens, known as Lao Bi Jing, are celebrating the election as a victory against their Red China suppressors, she reported. “According to CCP’s propaganda, if the Taiwanese people elect Lai Ching-te for president, that means they will be voting for war,” Tsai said of Xi’s threats. Instead, the new Taiwan president put out an olive branch to China and pledged to work with the democracies around the world. He’ll need all the support he can get since his party was only able to secure half of the seats in the Legislative Yuan, the republic’s unicameral legislature in Taipei.
The Biden administration did not take sides in the election, taking a stance described as “disciplined neutrality.” Analysts concluded that the legislature would remain split and the administration wanted to keep open the option of working with both sides. In November, the president met with Xi in San Francisco, along with 400 of the nation’s top business leaders who hailed their economic and political ties to the communist nation. Biden himself is seen as compromised in dealing with China after his son, Hunter, following a trip to Beijing when he was vice president, secured a billion dollar private investment deal from the communists.
“This is where we are going to unmask all of the hypocrisy,” said Bannon, a former advisor to President Donald Trump. “All this whining from the illegitimate Biden regime and all their allies and all the folks in NATO saying it’s all about democracy in Ukraine. Not one of those gutless leaders will step up against the CCP and say, ‘Yes, what Taiwan did, we should recognize as democracy.’ There is no democracy in Ukraine at all. Here, you had free people in the face of a brutal enemy not even 90 miles away that essentially said, ‘We’re voting for our freedom and our liberty, and we will fight for it if we have to. And all the other folks talking about democracy, they’re all cowards and liars. They haven’t backed Taiwan, they haven’t backed the free Chinese people in Taiwan, they haven’t backed the Republic of Taiwan. Where are all of these people who are saying it's about democracy in Ukraine?’”
Spending bills are knotted up in Washington with both Republicans and Democrats looking to allocate billions more for Ukraine’s defense against Russia. U.S. taxpayers have been on the hook for $113 billion sent to Ukraine so far as U.S. leaders argue that the funds are necessary to protect the nation’s democracy.
“Taiwan is a great role model for democracy,” Tsai said, noting that turnout in the presidential election was about 75%. By comparison, 62.8% of eligible Americans vote, according to the Pew Research Center, ranking it 31st in the world, while in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has canceled elections. “There are no mail-in ballots in Taiwan, all of the ballots are counted by hand, so there is no chance of election fraud; they don’t use voting machines,” according to Tsai. “So Taiwan is a great role model and it inspired the 1.4 billion people in China to stand up against the CCP. This is why Taiwan is so strategic in terms of geopolitical importance. They matter a lot to the U.S. national interests. Not only in the Indo-Pacific but from around the world because Taiwan has the largest semiconductor manufacturing in the world,” she said, noting that they are planning a new factory in Arizona. “They are trying to reduce Taiwan’s economic dependence on the CCP and that is also something that the United States can learn from. We need to reduce our economic dependence on the CCP and make America independent and great again.”
Tsai concluded: “The globalists, along with the CCP, are the world’s biggest racists. That’s why they don’t want to talk about Taiwan because Taiwan’s democracy and fair election destroyed their lies. Look at Taiwan: They share the same ancestry, language, and culture as China and have been having fair elections for so many years. And I don’t know why people keep talking about Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine. They should be talking about Taiwan, how given it’s such a small island, it has the immense courage to stand up to the CCP, created the world’s most vibrant democracy and semiconductor industry, and they are a great ally to the United States of America. But the global elites will not recognize Taiwan because once they recognize Taiwan, they are going to return their backs against the CCP and the CCP slavery of the 1.4 billion Chinese people.”