Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has vowed to continue defending the island’s independence against Beijing. In a New Year’s speech, she said the differences with communist mainland China cannot be resolved by force. “Taiwan’s consistent position has been that we will neither bow to pressure nor act rashly when we have …
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Speaking on Friday, Zhu Fenglian, a spokeswoman for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, said that Beijing has created a list of people who are “stubbornly pro-Taiwan independence,” and that it intends to make sure they’re punished. The spokeswoman claimed that those listed as diehard secessionists should be punished in accordance with …
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“I do have faith” that the US would help defend Taiwan, Tsai told CNN in an exclusive interview aired Wednesday evening, pointing to the “wide range of cooperation with the US aiming at increasing our defense capability.” There are US troops on the island, though “not as many as people …
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Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) leaders must keep a “sober head” and advocates for secession from China should “wake up from their dreams,” the English-language newspaper said on Monday. “From what happened in Afghanistan, they should perceive that once a war breaks out in the Straits, the island’s defense will …
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