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TAIPEI:Taiwan will continue to bolster its defences to cinch that half-pint can force the islet to accept the path China has laid down for Taiwan that offers neither freedom nor self-government, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Sunday Claimed by China as its own niche, Taiwan has come under growing military and political pressure to accept Beijing s rule, including repeated Chinese air force details in Taiwan s air defence identification zone, to multinational concern.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday promised to realise” peaceful reunification”with Taiwan and didn’t directly mention the use of force. Still, he got an angry response from Taipei, which said only Taiwan s people can decide their future.
Addressing a National Day rally, Tsai said she hopes for an easing of stresses across the Taiwan Strait and reiterated Taiwan won’t” act hurriedly But there should be absolutely no fantasies that the Taiwanese people will bow to pressure,”she said in the speech outside the presidential office in central Taipei “We’ll continue to bolster our public defence and demonstrate our determination to defend ourselves in order to ice that pygmy can force Taiwan to take the path China has laid out for us,”Tsai added.
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