China carried out military drills near Taiwan that included sending 25 aircraft, including fighter jets, over the Taiwan Strait’s median line that has served as a barrier between the two sides.
Taiwan’s election next year is a choice between democracy and autocracy, Vice President William Lai said in comments broadcast after China carried out military drills around the island in anger at his visit to the United States this month.
That included Su-30 and J-11 fighter jets, according to a map the ministry published, though there was no immediate sign China was continuing its exercises on Sunday. In an interview broadcast late Saturday with a Taiwanese television station, but conducted while he was in New York last weekend, Lai said it was not up to China to decide who won the election.Credit:“It’s not who China likes today, and then they can assume to post. This goes against the spirit of Taiwan’s democracy, and represents huge damage to Taiwan’s democratic system,” he said.
China has for many years wanted to “annex” Taiwan and this is not something that started under the ruling Democratic Progressive Party government, he said, pointing to battles along the Chinese coast in the 1950s that saw China seize Taiwan-controlled islets.
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