Lai Ching-te Photographer: I-Hwa Cheng/Bloomberg The presidential candidate for Taiwan’s ruling party vowed to protect the status quo with China if elected, comments intended to reassure voters and the US that he can be trusted to handle a difficult relationship with Beijing.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Vice President Lai Ching-te said he’d build up Taiwan’s military deterrence capabilities, ensure economic security, partner with other democracies and conduct “steady and principled cross-strait leadership.”
“I will support the cross-strait status quo,” the Democratic Progressive Party chairman wrote on Tuesday. “I will always work toward peace and stability for the people of […]
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