Zhu criticized Lai for exaggerating the "mainland threat" in his speeches while reiterating rhetoric advocating "Taiwan ...

Taiwan leader criticized for independence rhetoric By ZHANG YI | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2025-06-30 21:49 ...

Chen Binhua (陳斌華), spokesperson for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, accused the DPP administration of “stubbornly” clinging to ...

Taiwan leader Lai Ching-te's recent remarks have again divided public opinion on the island while escalating tensions across the Taiwan Strait with provocative moves toward secession, a mainland ...

President Lai Ching-te is traveling across Taiwan to urge unity against growing Chinese pressure, declaring the island an ...

For Lai, the political upside of talking tough currently outweighs the downside. Chinese saber-rattling chips away at Taiwan’s sovereignty, but it also rallies Taiwanese voters and Western allies in ...

The speech was a blatant "Taiwan independence manifesto," inciting confrontation across the Straits, and was also a patchwork of deeply flawed and misguided separatist rhetoric, which fully ...

Zhu noted that in his speech, Lai played up the so-called "mainland threat," repeated the old rhetoric of "Taiwan independence," and heightened hostility and confrontation across the Taiwan Straits.

In a speech kicking off his ‘10 Talks on the Country’ series on 22 June, Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te declared that ...