Summary of today’s Essential Eight:
Taiwan election - William Lai of the DPP won the election with 40% of the vote, not far from what the final polls suggested. The DPP lost the majority in parliament and now has 51 seats to the KMT’s 52, and the TPP’s 8, so governing for Lai and the DPP will not be easy. From the PRC’s perspective that may be the best, …