Taiwan’s President-elect: Democracy at heart of China ties

TAIPEI: Taiwan’s President-elect said Wednesday that democracy would be at the heart of future relations with China after they hit bumps recently over sensitive issues like the forced deportation of Taiwanese suspects from Kenya to the mainland.

Tsai Ing-wen, who will take office on May 20 as the island’s first female president, repeated her vow to maintain the “status quo” across the Taiwan Strait that separates the island from the mainland.