<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Taiwan will not back down to China in the face of threats and military drills, Vice President William Lai said over the weekend. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lai briefly visited New York City on Sunday, where he made the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/14/asia/taiwan-china-threats-william-lai-new-york-intl-hnk/index.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWhen%20Taiwan%20is%20safe%2C%20the,according%20to%20Taiwan's%20presidential%20office." target="_blank" rel="noopener">comments</a>, vowing Taiwan would continue to be free and democratic while pushing back on China&#8217;s constant aggression. Beijing has heavily criticized the presidential candidate over his visit, officially called a “transit” for diplomatic reasons, being labeled a “separatist” and “troublemaker.&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“When Taiwan is safe, the world is safe, and when there is peace on the Taiwan Strait, there will be world peace,” Lai said during a speech at a lunch banquet. “No matter how great the threat of authoritarianism is to Taiwan, we absolutely will not be scared nor cower, we will uphold the values of democracy and freedom.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last month, Chinese ambassador to the U.S. Xie Fang <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-says-its-priority-is-stop-taiwan-vp-visiting-us-next-month-2023-07-20/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it was the communist country’s “priority” to prevent Lai from visiting America. Lai’s stopover in New York occurred on his way to Paraguay for Tuesday&#8217;s inauguration of its new president, Santiago Peña. Paraguay is just one of 13 states to hold formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan; the U.S. does not. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Lai stubbornly adheres to the separatist position of Taiwan independence and is a troublemaker through and through,&#8221; the Chinese Foreign Ministry <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-rebukes-separatist-taiwan-vp-brief-us-visit-troublemaker?intcmp=tw_fnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> after Lai arrived in New York. &#8220;China is closely following developments and will take resolute and vigorous measures to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The communist nation has previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-claims-the-u-s-is-turning-taiwan-into-a-powder-keg-pushing-taiwanese-toward-abyss-of-disaster" target="_blank" rel="noopener">followed through</a> on these threats, performing extensive military drills after former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) visited Taiwan in August 2022 and when President Tsai Ing-wen visited California and met with current House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in April. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After the Tsai-McCarthy meeting, China conducted three days of military drills, including an exercise of an “encirclement” of Taiwan. David Gitter with the National Bureau of Asian Research <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-66495368" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told BBC News</a> that it’s “very likely” that China will conduct military drills following Lai’s return, adding that the drills are &#8220;a boundary that Beijing once rarely crossed but has done so with increased frequency since Pelosi&#8217;s trip last year.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lai is currently a <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-66495368" target="_blank" rel="noopener">frontrunner</a> in Taiwan’s presidential election, set to take place in January — President Tsai is currently finishing out her second term, the limit under Taiwan’s constitution. Lai has previously referred to himself as a “pragmatic worker for Taiwanese independence” and is part of the “deep green” faction of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which is more inclined to support independence, according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/14/asia/taiwan-china-threats-william-lai-new-york-intl-hnk/index.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWhen%20Taiwan%20is%20safe%2C%20the,according%20to%20Taiwan's%20presidential%20office." target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The outlet notes, however, that since winning his party’s nomination, he has taken a more moderate stance with regard to mainland China. Lai has reportedly denied claims that he is a pro-independence candidate, instead vowing to maintain the status quo and insisting that the Taiwanese people should decide their fate.</span></p>

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