Taiwan defies China in election
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 15 January 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Taiwan’s presidential election shows that voters are willing to defy China, the 2024 US presidential election kicks off today, and American banks say that American consumers are in good shape.
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What Taiwanese voters’ defiance means for China
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.0 | Learn more at equinore. |
| 0:10.0 | Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Monday, January 15th, and this is your |
| 0:17.6 | F.T. news briefing. The 2024 U.S. presidential race gets underway for real today and Taiwan chose a new president that China is firmly against |
| 0:28.9 | Beijing has made no secret that they do not like this politician that in fact they detest him even more |
| 0:36.8 | than the party in general. Plus America's biggest bangs didn't do too shabby last |
| 0:42.0 | quarter but is it gonna last? Bigger, |
| 0:43.0 | but is it going to last? |
| 0:45.1 | I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. China called Taiwan's election a choice between war and peace, but on Saturday, |
| 1:06.7 | Taiwanese voters ignored that warning. |
| 1:09.4 | Lai Ching Day will take over as Taiwan's president later this year, his win is a setback for Beijing. |
| 1:16.0 | China claims the island as part of its territory and is called Lai a dangerous separatist. |
| 1:22.2 | The F.T.'s Catherine Hilla joins me from Taipei to talk about the fallout from the election. |
| 1:26.7 | Hey, Catherine. |
| 1:27.7 | Hi, Mock. |
| 1:28.9 | So Taiwan's president-elect, he doesn't technically take office until May, but in the meantime what should we know about |
| 1:36.4 | him? |
| 1:37.4 | Who is Leiching Day? |
| 1:38.4 | Well he started out as a doctor, but he has become a quite successful politician since he is currently vice president |
| 1:46.9 | before that he also served as Premier and he's been a local mayor down south where the DPP the ruling Democratic Progressive Party has their home base so to say and he belongs to the wing of the ruling party that is more strongly in favor of some kind of more formal independence for Taiwan. |
| 2:09.2 | He has sympathized with these feelings in the past. |
| 2:13.0 | Okay, so to that point, and I kind of hinted at this already, what does Beijing think of lie? |
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