Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen explains why she prefers a diplomatic approach to dealing with China's aggression in the region over a full-fledged war.
An official familiar with Tsai's thinking, speaking on condition of anonymity, told reporters the president was looking to"clearly convey" her position to the world and Beijing.
"Standing firm on the status quo of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait is the main axis of Tsai's comments on cross-strait relations this year," the official said, adding this was the world's expectation and responsibility of both Taipei and Beijing. In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese president Xi Jinping delivers a speech via video link to the opening ceremony of the Bo'ao Forum For Asia in Bo'ao in southern China's Hainan Province, Thursday, April 21, 2022. Xi said his government supports talks to resolve international disputes, but opposes the use of sanctions.of healthy and orderly people-to-people exchanges across the strait, which would ease tensions.
But the broad consensus in Taiwan is that its sovereignty and free and democratic way of life must be defended, she added.Tsai has made strengthening Taiwan's defences a cornerstone of her administration to enable it to mount a more credible deterrence to China, which is ramping up an ambitious modernisation programme of its own military.
Taiwan is staging military exercises to show its ability to resist Chinese pressure to accept Beijing's political control over the island.
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