China's ambitions won't stop at Taiwan, President Tsai Ing-wen said in a virtual address on Monday.
renewed her country's call for inclusion in the United Nations on Monday by warning of the expansion of authoritarianism, aligning herself with the West's condemnation of Russia and its growing unease about China.
"At this moment, democracies and the rules-based world order are facing the greatest challenges since the Cold War," said the island's first female leader, who delivered prepared remarks at an annual summit hosted by the nonprofit Concordia, an event that coincides with theAmbassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S.'s permanent representative to the UN, also attended the summit.
Since Tsai's election in 2016, Taipei has aligned its foreign policy goals more closely with Washington. She has broken from her predecessor's diplomatic approach to Beijing of tacitly recognizing Taiwan as part of, refusing talks with the island's neighbor across the Taiwan Strait unless they're conducted on the basis of political parity—a position the Chinese leadership hasn't accepted.
President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan, left, speaks at Taoyuan airport on January 7, 2017, in Taoyuan, Taiwan. Tsai urged democracies to educate themselves on the expansionist “authoritarian playbook” during a virtual address for the nonprofit Concordia's annual summit on September 19, 2022, in New York.
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