​Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of major Apple supplier Foxconn, has collected three times the amount of signatures needed to qualify to run in Taiwan's presidential elections. Gou thanked his backers for their "enthusiastic support" and vowed to work hard to achieve "peace across the Taiwan Strait".Gou, who stepped down as Foxconn chief in 2019, had to gather around 300,000 voter signatures by November 2 to qualify as an independent candidate. The election commission said he got more than 900,000 valid signatures.