Taiwan president resigns as party leader after election defeat
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen has resigned as head of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party following local election losses suffered by her party on Saturday.Voters in Taiwan overwhelmingly chose the opposition Nationalist party in several major races on the autonomous island in an election that saw lingering concerns about threats from China recede to more local issues.Tsai had spoken many times about "opposing China and defending Taiwan" during her party's campaign. But the party's candidate, Chen Shih-chung, who lost his Taipei mayoral battle, only raised the issue of the Communist Party threat a few times before quickly turning…
