Abrar Hussain of DOT : A Taiwanese presidential spokesman has said that the country “will not bow” to Chinese pressure, as the self-ruled island held live-fire military drills aimed at showing its ability to defend itself from Beijing’s threats.
The developments came after China, which considers Taiwan as a renegade province, has been pressing companies around the world to change the way they refer to the island amid renewed threats to use force to gain control over it. “As for China’s related out-of-control actions, we need to remind the international community to face this squarely and to unite efforts to reduce and contain these actions,” Alex Huang, the spokesperson for President Tsai Ing-wen, told reporters in Taipei.
Chinese nationalists fled to Taiwan at the end of the civil war in 1949 when Communists took control of mainland China, but as the island has transformed into one of the region’s most vibrant democracies it has become increasingly assertive of its own identity.
-Source: Reuters