ON Saturday, pro-independence party candidate Tsai Ing-wen was declared the winner of Taiwan’s presidential election, defeating Eric Chu of the governing party Kuomintang and third-party candidate James Soong.
News outlets in China were careful not to address Tsai as Taiwan’s President, but just a Taiwan leader. Some netizens even referred to her as the new “governor of Taiwan,” with governor being the top post of a Chinese province.
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