This is the atmosphere in which Taiwan on Monday inaugurated its new president, Lai Ching-te,
an invasion by mainland China, the main criticism wasn’t that it was an unwelcome blast of reality. It was criticised for not being realistic enough. Russia had launched its cruise missile strikes into residential areas of Kyiv 48 days earlier. The unimaginable, suddenly, was all too conceivable.
Not content to leave it to the government, a private media outlet published its own survival handbook and a local tycoon founded an academy offering civilians courses in how to fight and survive against Chinese mainland troops., Lai Ching-te, who also goes by the name William Lai, of the Democratic People’s Party for a four-year term. An Australian delegation of five backbench federal MPs from both major parties is among the guests, much to Beijing’s displeasure.
In other words, Xi intends to impose on the Taiwanese his version of “glory”, like it or not. But the more Xi has pressured Taiwan, the more the Taiwanese have resisted.How? On a grand scale – the people keep voting for the political party that Beijing detests. The DPP, and Lai himself, have a history of favouring a more independent stance for Taiwan. So Beijing fiercely opposes the DPP and Lai’s presidency.
She knows that Taiwan alone cannot defeat a determined Chinese invasion; instead, she worked towards maximum deterrence: “The cost of taking over Taiwan is going to be enormous,” Tsai told the BBC. “What we need to do is increase the cost. Strengthening our military capacity is one and working with our friends in the region to form a collective deterrence is another.”And the Taiwanese people have become more Taiwanese, and less Chinese.
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