Separatists will 'stink for 10,000 years', China says after Taiwan vote

BEIJING: Separatists will "leave a stink for 10,000 years", the Chinese government's top diplomat said on Monday, in Beijing's most strongly worded reaction yet to Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen's re-election on the back of a message of standing up to Beijing. Tsai was returned to office on Saturday by a landslide, in an election dominated by China's growing efforts to get the island it claims as its own to accept Beijing's rule. Tsai said upon claiming victory that Taiwan would not...