TAIPEI -- Taiwan's ruling party suffered a major blow in local elections Saturday, with a wave of defeats prompting President Tsai Ing-wen to resign as party chief and raising the prospect of the pro-China opposition retaking the presidency in 2020.
Beijing is expected to seize on the disruption in the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party and turn up the diplomatic pressure on the island's government. Chinese relations will likely be a focus of a chaotic presidential race that will pit the DPP against the pro-China Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang.
