"Through our actions, the Taiwanese people have successfully resisted efforts from external forces to influence this election,” he added, a veiled remark to China’s efforts to interfere in Taiwan’s elections. “We trust that only the people of Taiwan have the right to choose their own president.”

This reference may not be about China's efforts to interfere in Taiwan's election, but about the Globalist Deep State interfering in Taiwan's election. Through the lens of the CCP is in the midst of a Civil War between a nationalist faction led by Xi and a globalist faction (that is losing) led previously by Hu Jintao (deposed, removed from all power, and likely dead now); And a Taiwan that was likely controlled by the globalist Deep State that possibly was also controlling Hu Jintao; This possibly looks like a true win for the Taiwanese People in the form of a real nationalist takeover.

Note that in a theoretical Federalist State of China, Taiwan becomes an "independent sovereign state" as part of a Nationalist China. Only Deep State globalists want CCP military to destroy Taiwan in order to create WW3. Xi may have other plans.