TAIPEI: China's manipulation of Taiwan's democratic openness is the largest risk to the island's security, President Tsai Ing-wen stated Tuesday, as she referred to as on Beijing to seek peaceful approach to resolve their differences.
Relations between China and Taiwan have spent two years within the doldrums because the election of Tsai, who has refused to recognize Beijing's stance that the island is part of "one China".
Tsai's feedback got here a day before Chinese President Xi Jinping is due to give a landmark speech on Taiwan. It can be intently watched on the island where many have been rattled by way of the Chinese leader's increasingly muscular rhetoric.
Beijing nonetheless sees democratic Taiwan as part of its territory to be reunified by way of power if vital, despite the two facets being dominated one by one because the end of a civil warfare on the mainland in 1949. China has cut off official conversation with Tsai's government and stepped up army and diplomatic force.
In a New Year's Day speech, Tsai referred to as for Beijing to return to the desk however she warned that Taiwan's people would never surrender the kind of freedoms unseen on the authoritarian mainland.
"What we need is for the two sides to understand and face the reality that both sides are fundamentally different in their values, lifestyles, and political system," she stated.
Beijing, she added, "must respect the insistence of 23 million people for freedom and democracy" and "must use peaceful and equal terms to handle our differences".
She also accused the Chinese government and businesses of taking advantage of Taiwan's open society.
"Taiwan's biggest challenge at the moment is especially from China... where it is using our (Taiwan's) democratic system of openness and freedom," she stated, bringing up an influx of viral faux information about Taiwan from the mainland as one instance.
She also stated China had not saved Taiwan adequately knowledgeable of African swine fever outbreaks, something she stated may just harm native businesses and sow mistrust.
Xi's speech on Wednesday marks the 40th anniversary of the "Message to Compatriots in Taiwan", an open letter from China's communist rulers during the reformist Deng Xiaoping generation which resulted in a warming of cross-strait ties.
But Xi has adopted a markedly extra confrontational overseas policy in recent times and often refers to his want to unite Taiwan with the mainland soon.
While Tsai has refused to recognise Beijing's "one China" policy she has walked a cautious trail inside her personal birthday celebration, where some contributors openly advocate Taiwan declaring independence -- a major crimson line for China.
In her New Year's speech she reiterated that her government was open to direct talks. Tsai's ruling Democratic Progressive Party received a bloody nose in native polls in November and she faces a presidential election in 2020.
The major opposition Kuomintang birthday celebration received a string of key mayoralties within the November poll and favours much friendlier ties with Beijing.
Relations between China and Taiwan have spent two years within the doldrums because the election of Tsai, who has refused to recognize Beijing's stance that the island is part of "one China".
Tsai's feedback got here a day before Chinese President Xi Jinping is due to give a landmark speech on Taiwan. It can be intently watched on the island where many have been rattled by way of the Chinese leader's increasingly muscular rhetoric.
Beijing nonetheless sees democratic Taiwan as part of its territory to be reunified by way of power if vital, despite the two facets being dominated one by one because the end of a civil warfare on the mainland in 1949. China has cut off official conversation with Tsai's government and stepped up army and diplomatic force.
In a New Year's Day speech, Tsai referred to as for Beijing to return to the desk however she warned that Taiwan's people would never surrender the kind of freedoms unseen on the authoritarian mainland.
"What we need is for the two sides to understand and face the reality that both sides are fundamentally different in their values, lifestyles, and political system," she stated.
Beijing, she added, "must respect the insistence of 23 million people for freedom and democracy" and "must use peaceful and equal terms to handle our differences".
She also accused the Chinese government and businesses of taking advantage of Taiwan's open society.
"Taiwan's biggest challenge at the moment is especially from China... where it is using our (Taiwan's) democratic system of openness and freedom," she stated, bringing up an influx of viral faux information about Taiwan from the mainland as one instance.
She also stated China had not saved Taiwan adequately knowledgeable of African swine fever outbreaks, something she stated may just harm native businesses and sow mistrust.
Xi's speech on Wednesday marks the 40th anniversary of the "Message to Compatriots in Taiwan", an open letter from China's communist rulers during the reformist Deng Xiaoping generation which resulted in a warming of cross-strait ties.
But Xi has adopted a markedly extra confrontational overseas policy in recent times and often refers to his want to unite Taiwan with the mainland soon.
While Tsai has refused to recognise Beijing's "one China" policy she has walked a cautious trail inside her personal birthday celebration, where some contributors openly advocate Taiwan declaring independence -- a major crimson line for China.
In her New Year's speech she reiterated that her government was open to direct talks. Tsai's ruling Democratic Progressive Party received a bloody nose in native polls in November and she faces a presidential election in 2020.
The major opposition Kuomintang birthday celebration received a string of key mayoralties within the November poll and favours much friendlier ties with Beijing.
China taking advantage of Taiwan's openness, warns President Tsai Ing-wen
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