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Peace must be based on strength

Taipei Times Editorial

President William Lai (賴清德) on Tuesday last week said that “Taiwan would absolutely not sign a cross-strait peace accord,” underlining that peace should be achieved from a position of strength.

The president made the address at a meeting with community-based groups committed to civil defense, a day ahead of the Presidential Office’s first Whole-of-Society Defense Resilience Committee meeting.

“We must rely on our own strength to achieve peace. Peace based on a piece of paper is not reliable,” Lai said.

Chinese who disrupted HK event deported

Taipei Times

A Chinese couple accused of disrupting a pro-democracy event in Taipei organized by Hong Kong residents has been deported, the National Immigration Agency said in a statement yesterday afternoon.

A Chinese man, surnamed Yao (姚), and his wife were escorted by immigration officials to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, where they boarded a flight to China before noon yesterday, the agency said.

The agency said that it had annulled the couple’s entry permits, citing alleged contraventions of the Regulations Governing the Approval of Entry of People of the Mainland Area into the Taiwan Area (大陸地區人民進入台灣地區許可辦法).

Taiwan to stand with democracies: Lai

Taipei Times

Taiwan hopes to join like-minded nations under the democratic umbrella and jointly counter authoritarian aggression, President William Lai (賴清德) said in a prerecorded speech during the annual Concordia Summit in New York on Tuesday.

Lai addressed the summit via video at Concordia’s invitation, using the opportunity to speak on the issue of Chinese aggression toward Taiwan and Beijing’s distortion of UN Resolution 2758.

Lai’s comments came on the heels of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, which opened on Tuesday.

Taiwan-Japan ties in the Lai era

John Lim 林泉忠

The newly appointed Taiwanese representative to Japan, Lee Yi-yang (李逸洋), has taken office, launching the “Lai era” of Taiwan-Japan relations under President William Lai (賴清德).

While the Taiwan-US relationship is based on security guarantees that Taiwan relies on for survival, Taiwan-Japan relations are based on broad economic, cultural and personnel exchanges. The two nations keep pace with one another and rely on mutual engagement.

The relationship is the best it has been since Japan severed formal diplomatic relations with the Republic of China in 1972. Taiwan’s response the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that led to the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster helped establish a relationship of necessity, exemplified by the saying, “a friend in need is a friend indeed.”

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