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Tsai enters DPP primary race

Taipei Times

President Tsai Ing-wen yesterday in Taipei registers as a candidate for the party’s primary for next year’s presidential election.
Photo: Peter Lo, Taipei Times

President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday registered as a candidate in the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) presidential primary, saying that Taiwan and the party need her.

Law needed to prevent Beijing’s infiltration

Hung Cheng 洪正

President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) on March 11 posted a message on Facebook entitled “Guiding principles for the response and opposition to China’s ‘one country, two systems’ plan for Taiwan.” The government’s strategy deserves the public’s full support.

Upholding national security and the nation’s sovereignty can be split into two distinct areas: external — national defense and foreign affairs — and internal — counterespionage and infiltration.

Lai seeks DPP’s backing for 2020 race

Taipei Times

Former premier William Lai, center, waves during a news conference yesterday at the Democratic Progressive Party’s headquarters in Taipei after announcing his registration to run in the party’s presidential primary.
Photo: Huang Yao-cheng, Taipei Times

Former premier William Lai (賴清德) yesterday registered to run in the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) presidential primary, saying that he could shoulder the responsibility of leading Taiwan in defending itself.

Pentagon budget focuses on threat posed by China

Taipei Times

The Cloud Shadow uncrewed aerial vehicle is displayed at the China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai, China, on Nov. 6 last year.
Photo: AP

Chinese bombers. Chinese hypersonic missiles. Chinese cyberattacks. Chinese anti-satellite weapons.

To a remarkable degree, the Pentagon budget proposal for next year is shaped by national security threats that Acting US Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan has summarized in three words: “China, China, China.”

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