The Kuomintang candidate for the presidency of Taiwan, Ma Ying-jieou, has won the election by 16 points, 58-42 over the DPP candidate Frank Hsieh, Reuters and other wire services are reporting (plus Taiwanese satellite news channels, which I'm watching.) This is wider than polls indicated, but polls have been all over the place worldwide recently.
While there have been a number of "pro-green" (pro-DPP) diarists on Daily Kos, I'm actually inclined to see this as not a bad result. In public policy terms, the two parties aren't actually all that different, and in terms of relations to mainland China, both have nominally different aims but are in fact pro-status quo parties, a good thing, in my opinion. Plus Chen Shui-bian ran the DPP and the government as a one-man show, wasn't markedly honest and seemed to make policy off the cuff. Ma seems reasonable enough, and the minor corruption scandal in Taiwan struck me as beaten up to large degree. The DPP needs time to groom the next generation of leadership, imho.