{"id":9392,"date":"2016-01-18T19:16:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T13:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=9392"},"modified":"2016-01-18T19:16:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T13:46:46","slug":"tsai-ing-wen-has-been-elected-as-first-female-and-14th-president-of-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=9392","title":{"rendered":"Tsai Ing-wen has been elected as first female and 14th President of Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/tsai-ing-wen-has-been-elected-as-first-female-and-14th-president-of-taiwan-9392.htm\/tsai_ing\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9394\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9394 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tsai_ing.jpg\" alt=\"tsai_ing\" width=\"506\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>Taiwan: Pro-Independence Opposition candidate of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Tsai Ing-wen (59) has been elected as first female and 14th President of Taiwan. Ms Tsai\u2019s victory is the biggest mandate ever won by a DPP president and is only the second-ever victory for the DPP since Taiwan split with China in 1949.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The first was Chen Shui-bian who also was pro-independence (from China) advocate. During his time as President between 2000 and 2008 tensions had escalated with China.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the 2016 general elections, DPP which leads the camp that wants independence from China led by Tsai Ing-wen emerged victorious with 56% of the total vote share. She defeated Eric Chu of the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) Party that secured 31% vote share.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan: Pro-Independence Opposition candidate of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Tsai Ing-wen (59) has been elected as first female and 14th President of Taiwan. Ms Tsai\u2019s victory is the biggest mandate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=9392\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-club","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}