Tsai Ing-wen made history on Sunday, when she became the first female president of Taiwan. At 59, the new president is the leader of the Democratic Progressive Party of the country. This organization wishes to establish independence from China, and has recently taken majority in the Taiwanese legislature for the first time in history. In 2012, she lost her first presidential candidacy. But this year, she won against Mr. Eric Chu, Mayor of New Taipei City, and chairman of the opposing party, the Kuomintang, the Chinese Nationalist Party. Ms Tsai's political policies and plans include to preserve the standards of trade between China, Beijing, and Taiwan, In her victory speech, she stated that "I want to emphasize that both sides of the Taiwanese Strait have a responsibility to find mutually acceptable means of interaction that are based on dignity and reciprocity." With a bachelor of law at National Taiwan University, a master's in law at Cornell University in the US and a PhD at the London School of Economics, Tsai Ing-wen is more than intellectually capable of running her country, and is described as many of her peers as having the initiative to step up to the table and become the leader of any group. In addition to her jobs as a president, she now serves as an inspiration to women all over the world.
