Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/08/14
By: Sophia Yeh, Tsao Yu-fan and Elizabeth Hsu
Los Angeles, Aug. 13 (CNA) Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文)
By Sophia Yeh, Tsao Yu-fan and Elizabeth Hsu
praised former U.S. President Ronald Reagan for standing up for the values of democracy and freedom and voiced her appreciation for his support of Taiwan during a visit to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Monday.
Tsai evoked Reagan in telling gathered Taiwanese media, “Anything can be negotiated except that our freedom and our future cannot be compromised.”
“I believe this is also how we Taiwanese feel now,” Tsai said, referring to current relations between Taiwan and China, which claims Taiwan as part of its territory.
The quote apparently goes back to something Reagan said after failing to agree with then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on arms reduction in Iceland in 1986: “I went to Reykjavik determined that everything was negotiable except two things: our freedom and our future.”
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