Opinion piece praises U.S. Senators’ “TAIPEI Act” proposal
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/09/08
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
A piece in The Times of London calls for wider support of Taiwan against bullying by China (screenshot Times website).
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The West needs to stand together in order to defend Taiwan against bullying by China, a leading article in the Times of London said Friday.
The opinion piece comes as the island has been targeted by the communist leaders in Beijing for ever more far-reaching bullying, including demands on foreign multinational corporations to stop referring to Taiwan as a separate country from China on their websites.
In the comment piece titled “Solidarity with Taiwan,” the Times describes China as “an authoritarian one-party state whose president has awarded himself leadership for life and launched his vast country on a mission of diplomatic and economic aggrandizement backed by the implicit threat of force.”
The paper contrasts China with Taiwan, “a prosperous independent democracy with no discernible appetite for Chinese communism.” [FULL STORY]