
Some observers believe Beijing will monitor White House actions achievable without Congress, while others suggest China may seek closer engagement with Democrats following their control of the House and Senate after Tuesday's elections.
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Tuesday's elections resulted in Democrats taking control of both the House and Senate in January after a 'blue tsunami' flipped former Republican strongholds.
Some observers believe Beijing will start paying closer attention to what the White House can achieve without support in Congress, while others say it may seek closer engagement with the Democrats given their ability to "poison" relations between the two countries.
Tuesday's elections left the Democrats set to take control of both the House and Senate in January after the "blue tsunami" flipped former Republican strongholds.

The Democratic Progressive Party's "Night of Caution and Fear" was held at Dazhi Dianhua on the 6th. New Taipei mayor candidate Su Qiaohui and Taipei mayor candidate Shen Boyang shared the same stage. Su Qiaohui broke the news that Shen Boyang's nomination triggered an "ocean current" craze that surpassed the eve of the presidential election. She also said that more than 800 days after announcing her candidacy, the New Taipei election situation has gone from lagging behind by 20% to half a boat body ahead of her opponent Li Sichuan. A total of more than 20,000 people signed up for the event, and 1,000 supporters were selected to participate.

Shen Boyang, Taipei mayoral candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party, responded on a political commentary program that the "Bodhisattva versus evil spirits" mentioned by Tsao Hsing-cheng means that everyone can achieve truth, goodness and beauty to become a Bodhisattva, and does not refer to the reincarnation of the Buddha. He said that he previously believed that Jiang Wanan was a Bodhisattva, but he has been smeared so much in the past two months that he is no longer the work of a Bodhisattva, but a respectable opponent.

Executive President Zhuo Yongtai did not countersign the amendment to the Elderly Welfare Act for the ninth time. The Executive Yuan believed that the amendment would delete the legal source of medical subsidies for 66,000 low- and middle-income elderly people, increase the fiscal burden by about 40 billion yuan every year, and infringe the authority of the Executive Yuan to propose budgets in accordance with the Constitution. Minister of Health and Welfare Shi Chongliang and Chairman of the Doctors Association Chen Xiangguo expressed concern and affirmation respectively.

Non-party legislator Gao Jin Sumei and his former office directors Zhang Junjie, Chen Zhixuan, and assistant Lin Yijun were involved in forming the "Ancestral Kingdom Team" from 2005 to 2016, which introduced 170 million yuan in funds to develop a communist espionage organization. The High People's Procuratorate yesterday indicted four people in accordance with the National Security Law and the Corruption Crime Regulations, and Gao Jin requested 14 years in prison and Zhang requested 15 years in prison.

The Legislative Yuan passed the "Amendment to the Interim Regulations on Welfare Subsidies for Elderly Farmers" on the third reading yesterday, increasing the monthly subsidy for elderly farmers from 8,110 yuan to 15,000 yuan. The implementation date will be retroactive to July 1 this year. It will also relax the standards for wealthy people. It is expected that more than 7,000 new people will be able to receive it.

The investigation investigated non-party legislator Gao Jin Sumei's violation of the National Security Act and found that she, former office director Zhang Junjie and others used the "Ancestral Land Team" to introduce 170 million yuan in funds from China in an attempt to manipulate specific legislators to influence Congress. Assistant Lin Yijun traveled across the Taiwan Strait to convey instructions from CCP officials. The prosecutor listed six major cooperative behaviors of SAIF, including holding anti-Japanese press conferences, deleting the budget of the representative office in Japan, anti-arms purchase cases, influencing bill review, fine-tuning the curriculum, and protesting and speaking out on cross-strait and diplomatic issues.