L.A.-area residents flock to Taiwan to vote in 'do or die' presidential election

[TomSea]

So, voting is Saturday? And over there, I think that means, the election day has already started....

L.A.-area residents flock to Taiwan to vote in 'do or die' presidential election
By Cindy Chang, Anh Do

As Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen finished her stump speech, Wendy Yang hopped up and down, shaking a campaign flag and grinning from ear to ear.

“Elect Tsai! Elect Tsai!” the Torrance resident shouted along with a crowd of hundreds hoping to see the president win a second term when voters across Taiwan go to the polls Saturday.

Next to Yang in the front row at the Wednesday rally in Taoyuan, just west of Taipei, Taiwan’s capital, were other Californians who had flown across the Pacific to cast their votes in an election that will determine the island’s relationship to China for the next four years, with Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests looming as a backdrop.

Read more at: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-10/california-residents-vote-taiwanese-presidential-election

Taipei Times News in English:   http://www.taipeitimes.com/



Looks like an old fashioned editorial cartoon, interesting.   I don't understand the cartoon per who is KMT, posting for interest's sake.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/photo/2020/01/11/2008184232

This one though, I do get....

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/photo/2020/01/10/2008184199

By the way, the article says, I believe, there are probably 300,000 Taiwanese in Southern California, that certainly is a lot to be from just an island nation.

[TomSea]

Sounds like the pro-Indpendent Taiwan lady, Tsai, is going to walk this election, that's what it sounds like, we will see.

[PeteS in CA]

A coworker took vacation time this past week so as to vote in the election.