Taiwan President-Elect Tsai's Facebook Flooded With Posts Demanding Island’s Return To China
The Facebook page of Taiwan's president-elect Tsai Ing-wen was flooded with thousands of posts demanding that the island be brought under Chinese control. By Thursday morning, more than 40,000 people had left such comments.
Tsai and her pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won presidential and parliamentary elections by a landslide Saturday. Beijing, which considers Taiwan a breakaway province that must one day be brought back under China’s control, is concerned that Tsai may push for the island's formal independence.