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.
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Lai is objectively fucked in his own legislature. Both the KMT and TPP are opposed to the DPP (enough to set aside their own differences)… And they hold the majority in the legislature.
I don’t understand how that article relates to Taiwan at all. It seems like a dispute between China and Australia.
He’s deflecting on a fucking non-issue because he doesn’t want to admit that his policy of antagonizing China isn’t working and the opposition (KMT+TPP) have increasing power.
You can’t see why a plane launching flares in the path of a helicopter in international waters is problematic?
How much does Pooh bear pay you or are you just a zinglet doing this shit for free?