Taiwan will reach out to world despite Chinese pressure: president
ROC Central News Agency
2018/07/25 18:06:18
Taipei, July 25 (CNA) Taiwan's resolution to reach out to the world will not change, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said Wednesday in response to the cancellation of the East Asian Youth Games in Taichung in 2019 under pressure from Beijing.
The president made the remark when meeting with foreign scholars attending the Ketagalan Forum: 2018 Asia-Pacific Security Dialogue hosted by the Prospect Foundation, a local think tank.
Tsai said it is regrettable that the Chinese government has been challenging the global order as well as the values of freedom and democracy with its expanding economic power and "sharp power."
The term of sharp power was coined by the U.S.-based National Endowment for Democracy in 2017 to denote authoritarian regimes' manipulation of information and political environments in the target countries, according to the website of the U.S.-based think tank.
The expanding influence of China on military and diplomatic relations might pose severe threats to the safety of East Asia and increase tension in the region, Tsai warned.
Amid the increasing pressure from the Chinese government, Taiwan has remained dedicated to ensuring peace, stability and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region in cooperation with other countries that have similar ideals, including partners from the Indo-Pacific region, the president said.
(By Yeh Su-ping and Hsu Hsiao-ling)
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