China on Saturday affirmed that its reunification with Taiwan was "inevitable", despite the election of independence-leaning Lai Ching-te in a vote on the self-ruled island.
The vote "will not impede the inevitable trend of China's reunification", Beijing's Taiwan Affairs Office spokesperson Chen Binhua said in a statement carried by state news agency Xinhua.
China's Taiwan Affairs Office said the victory of Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party candidate Lai Ching-te in an island-wide election would not change the basic landscape of cross-strait relations.
Chen Binhua, a spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, said the results showed the Democratic Progressive Party cannot represent mainstream public opinion on the island.
