Taiwan's re-elected leader wants close ties with Japan and US

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen meeting William Brent Christensen, director of the American Institute at the Presidential Office in Taipei, Taiwan. Voters came out in force for Tsai, who gained 57.1% of the ballot, to gain a second and final four-year term for her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). - AP

TAIPEH: Taiwan's leader Tsai Ing-wen wants to strengthen ties with the United States and Japan as she received representatives from both countries on Sunday (Jan 12), one day after she was re-elected on a local policy platform.

Voters came out in force for Tsai, who gained 57.1% of the ballot to gain a second and final four-year term for her independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).