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President Tsai, VP tout sovereignty, democracy

Sunday, 17 April 2022 05:43 Taipei Times

>President Tsai Ing-wen addresses yesterday’s Global Taiwan National Affairs Symposium in a pre-recorded speech.
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Taiwanese will demonstrate to the world that their nation is capable of defending its sovereignty and ensure that the future of Taiwan will be decided by its people, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) and Vice President William Lai (賴清德) said yesterday in pre-recorded remarks at the Global Taiwan National Affairs Symposium.

Senator touts Taiwan’s ‘global significance’

Saturday, 16 April 2022 05:07 Taipei Times

President Tsai Ing-wen, center, speaks to the members of a US delegation led by US Senator Lindsey Graham during their visit to the Presidential Office in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Wang Yu-Ching, EPA-EFE

Taiwan is a “country of global significance” and its security has implications for the world, US Senator Bob Menendez said yesterday in a meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文).

“With Taiwan producing 90 percent of the world’s high-end semiconductor products, it is a country of global significance, consequence and impact, and therefore it should be understood the security of Taiwan has a global impact,” Menendez, who is chairman of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, told Tsai at the Presidential Office in Taipei.

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The controversial participation of Taiwan in the WHO is more complicated than the designation “Taiwan, China,” over which the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) have traded fire, analysts said.

Despite being harshly criticized for a recently leaked procedure concerning the implementation of the International Health Regulations (IHR) — a set of WHO global health rules — with the instruction the refer to the nation as “Taiwan, Province of China,” the government has vehemently defended its WHO strategy.

The government has raised two key arguments in its defense.