Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen appealed to voters on Sunday to think of what had happened to Chinese-controlled Hong Kong when they cast their ballots next month, saying peace must be backed up with a commitment to boost defences.

TAIPEI, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen appealed to voters on Sunday to think of what had happened to Chinese-controlled Hong Kong when they cast their ballots next month, saying peace must be backed up with a commitment to boost defences.

Taiwan prepares for presidential and parliamentary elections on Jan. 13 as China, which claims the democratically governed island as its own territory, ramps up military pressure to assert its claims, including two major war games around the island in the past year and a half.

China and Taiwan’s main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), have cast the election as a choice between war and peace. China detests Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and its presidential candidate, Vice President Lai Ching-te, calling them dangerous separatists.

  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 months ago

    *among white “leftists” who see PoC and Queer folks as ideal victims to avenge, if only they’d just shut up and let the fascists kill them already

    They prefer us as martyrs for their cause as opposed to active agents for our own. Martyrs are much more agreeable in their eyes.

    It’s why they betrayed us to the Nazis in France, and it’s why they constantly threaten to do it again in America.