Taiwan’s newly inaugurated president William Lai has called on China to stop threatening the island and accept the existence of its democracy.
He urged Beijing to replace confrontation with dialogue, shortly after being sworn in on Monday.
He also said Taiwan would never back down in the face of intimidation from China, which has long claimed the island as its own.
China responded by saying, “Taiwan independence is a dead end”.
“Regardless of the pretext or the banner under which it is pursued, the push for Taiwan independence is destined to fail,” China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at the daily press briefing on Monday afternoon.
Maybe Lai should figure out his own legislature first 🤷
Feels like he’s trying to deflect away from the absolute fuckfest that his legislature has become by pointing at a bogeyman. After ,all, how dare a country exercise overflight in a military aircraft over a foreign EEZ.
I don’t understand how that article relates to Taiwan at all. It seems like a dispute between China and Australia.
You can’t see why a plane launching flares in the path of a helicopter in international waters is problematic?
US F-22s intercept Russian fighter jets, fire warning flares
yawn
Did you read the article, or are you just not smart enough to work why that is different?