Taiwan ruling party’s Lai Ching-te wins presidential election

Lai’s Democratic Progressive party, which rejects China’s territorial claims over island, wins unprecedented third term

Lai Ching-te, the presidential candidate for Taiwan’s ruling party, has won an election that China had framed as a choice between war and peace.

The candidate for Taiwan’s main opposition party the Kuomintang (KMT), Hou Yu-ih, conceded defeat in the election.