AGGRESSIVE CHINA: Taiwan is part of a network of countries favored by a regional US security strategy based on rules, not coercion, former US defense secretary Ash Carter said
Taipei Times
Date: Jul 25, 2018
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter
President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday pledged to defend Taiwan and the
President Tsai Ing-wen, right, meets former US secretary of defense Ashton Carter at the Presidential Office Building in Taipei yesterday. Photo: CNA
world’s shared democratic values amid Beijing’s continued attempts to employ its sharp power to influence its neighbors.
Tsai made the remarks in her opening address to the Ketagalan Forum: 2018 Asia Pacific Security Dialogue, which was held in Taipei by the Prospect Foundation at the behest of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and attended by a special guest from Washington, former US secretary of defense Ash Carter.
The forum focused on four areas: the situation on the Korean Peninsula, China’s sharp power and its challenges to the democratic world, the geo-economic environment of the Indo-Pacific region and the integration of Taipei’s New Southbound Policy with Washington’s Indo-Pacific strategy.
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