AP Analysis: Taiwan vote signals growing divide with China
(WorldNews Mexico)

................................................................ China may step up its campaign to try to isolate Taiwan both diplomatically and economically, though it may also be rethinking that approach after efforts to do so during Tsai’s first term only seemed to build support for her at home. Her big win could embolden some in her Democratic Progressive Party to look for ways to nudge Taiwan toward formal independence from China, the party’s official goal. But even symbolic steps would anger China and could invite retaliation, and Tsai herself has shown no signs of going down that path. Modern Taiwan is an outgrowth of a civil war between the Nationalists under Chiang...