Dong Jun rails at length about democratic island’s ‘separatists’ during Shangri-la Dialogue defence conference in SingaporePeaceful “reunification” with Taiwan remains China’s goal but the prospect is being eroded by Taiwanese “separatists” and external forces, the Chinese defence minister, Dong Jun, has said.Taiwan – which is democratically governed, and has never been ruled from the Communist-run People’s Republic of China – on 20 May inaugurated its newly elected president, Lai Ching-te. The routine democratic transition was greeted with fury by the Chinese Communist party, which staged war games around the island as a “punishment”. Continue reading…
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Publish date : 2024-06-02 05:30:26
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