The China Post
Date: October 10, 2017
TAIPEI (AP) — Taiwan’s independence-leaning government will defend the self-
President Tsai Ing-wen delivers her annual National Day address Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017. Tsai said the government will protect regional peace and stability amid heightened tensions with rival China. (CNA)
governing island’s freedoms and democratic system amid heightened tensions with rival China, President Tsai Ing-wen said Tuesday.
In an annual National Day address, Tsai also repeated her positions that Taiwan would continue to extend “goodwill” to China, and would neither buckle under Beijing’s pressure nor go down an adversarial path.
China cut off contact with Tsai’s government shortly after her inauguration last year and has refused to renew contact until she endorses Beijing’s view that Taiwan is a part of Chinese territory. Beijing threatens to use force to seize control of the island and has steadily increased diplomatic and economic pressure on Taipei over the last year and a half.
“We remain committed to maintaining peace and stability both in the Taiwan Strait and across the region,” Tsai said, according to an official English translation released by her office. [FULL STORY]
