El Savador's New President and the China-Taiwan Battle For Its Support

For the first time since the end of its Civil War eighteen years ago, a candidate not from the Arena Party has won the Presidency in El Salvador. BBC News reports "Leftist Mauricio Funes of El Salvador's former Marxist rebel FMLN party has won the country's presidential election." Taiwan's China Post (one of three English-language newspapers in Taiwan) comments on the battle between China and Taiwan to gain diplomatic recognition from El Salvador.