China did all it could in the more than three years since Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen first came to power in 2016 to undermine her administration - to no avail.
Ms Tsai won an even stronger second mandate in this month's presidential election with a record number of 8.17 million votes or 57.1 per cent of the total ballots.
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