TAIPEI — Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party does not represent the island, Beijing said Saturday in an initial response to the DPP’s victory in the presidential election, a statement that seems to dismiss the outcome of a democratic vote.
Chen Binhua, spokesman for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO), issued a statement through state-run Xinhua News Agency that presidential and legislative elections on Saturday showed that the DPP “cannot represent the mainstream public opinion on the island.”