Voice of America
Date: January 12, 2020
By: VOA News\
Protesters raise five demands gestures during a rally in Hong Kong, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020. More than a thousand people attended a Sunday rally in Hong Kong to urge people and governments abroad to support the territory’s pro-democracy movement and oppose China’s ruling Communist Party. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
The demonstrators celebrated the results of Taiwan's presidential election that returned the Democratic Progressive Party's Tsa Ing-wen to a second term.
Residents of Taiwan have been closely watching Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement.
China and Taiwan have been separately ruled since the Chinese civil war of the 1940s, when the Nationalists lost to the Communists and rebased their government in Taipei. China claims sovereignty over democratically ruled Taiwan and insists that the two sides eventually unite, by use of force if needed. [FULL STORY]