“My mission is to ensure that our nation endures and progresses, and to unite the 23 million people of Taiwan,” Lai said. “I will also uphold the commitment to resist annexation or encroachment upon our sovereignty.”
fredag 11. oktober 2024
Taiwan ‘determined’ to protect its democratic way of life
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te on Thursday vowed to resist any attempt by China to annex his country and to defend its democratic and diverse way of life, as Beijing stepped up military exercises around the island. In an Oct. 10 National Day speech marking the 113th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China by the nationalist Kuomintang under Sun Yat-sen, Lai said his government, which fled to the island after losing a civil war with Mao Zedong’s communists on the Chinese mainland in 1949, would continue to defend the islands of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu.
“My mission is to ensure that our nation endures and progresses, and to unite the 23 million people of Taiwan,” Lai said. “I will also uphold the commitment to resist annexation or encroachment upon our sovereignty.”
“My mission is to ensure that our nation endures and progresses, and to unite the 23 million people of Taiwan,” Lai said. “I will also uphold the commitment to resist annexation or encroachment upon our sovereignty.”
