President-elect Tsai Ing-wen has been selected for a place in TIME Magazine’s list of 2016’s most influential people.
Hong Kong media mogul and democracy activist Jimmy Lai wrote the article that accompanies her entry on the list. Titled “A New Face of Democracy,” the article says that Tsai “radiates a calm that sheathes a core of inner steel”.
The article also says that Tsai’s “most pressing challenge is to rekindle the economy. Tsai represents 23 million people -- most of whom are neither for China nor against it -- facing off against the world’s largest nation, with all the power and arrogance that go with it”.
Lai also writes “Tsai has something no Chinese leader has: a public mandate. She shows that democracy in a Chinese society is possible and can be peacefully attained.”
The article says “In Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan has a leader who knows what her people want.