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'Return to the right track' - Taiwan tells China to 'face reality' and respect election results (www.france24.com)

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Voters spurned Beijing's repeated calls not to vote for Lai, delivering a comfortable victory for a man China's ruling Communist Party sees as a dangerous separatist.

Lai Ching-te of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vowed to defend the island from China's "intimidation" and on Sunday the island's foreign ministry told Beijing to accept the result.

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs calls on the Beijing authorities to respect the election results, face reality and give up suppressing Taiwan in order for positive cross-strait interactions to return to the right track," it said in a statement.

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[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 13 points 10 months ago

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[-] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 6 points 10 months ago

Slightly off topic but, did you guys find a way to actually disable downvoting on your instance, or is this a rule enforced by moderators? Asking because we’d be interested in flipping this toggle on ours, if it exists

[-] anothermember@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago

Downvotes are disabled on Beehaw, we don't see them even on communities on other instances. I find it makes it a much more pleasant experience.

[-] lukini@beehaw.org 5 points 9 months ago

We also can't see the downvotes on our own comments from users on other instances, so they get the satisfaction of downvoting, but we go on not caring about it lol

[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 5 points 9 months ago

It's an instance setting: https://lemmy.ml/post/189500 (that bug has been fixed since).

[-] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 2 points 9 months ago

Cool! Thanks!

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not a mod but if i try to downvote, i get a message saying downvoting is disabled, and nothing goes go through. i am using liftoff so ymmv.

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