Taiwan's Tsai Ing-wen faces a tough 2nd term

Speaking on the fall campaign trail, Taiwan's Tsai Ing-wen described herself as a builder, saying that she spent her first four years as president "laying the foundation" and that she needed a second term to "begin raising the house."In Saturday's general election, voters gave Tsai what she wanted.They also sent enough of her Democratic Progressive Party colleagues to the legislature to help with the work.With the final count in, Tsai secured 57 percent of the popular vote, against 38 percent for her main rival, Nationalist Party (KMT) candidate Han Kuo-yu. The DPP won 61 of the 113 seats i…READ FULL ARTICLE