Taiwan’s core values are in peril in the face of increasing authoritarianism, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Thursday in New York, drawing direct parallels between Taiwan and Ukraine, according to a recording of her speech obtained by the Post.
Taiwan’s core values — freedom, democracy, human rights and rule of law — are in peril in the face of increasing authoritarianism, the democratic island’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, said on Thursday, drawing direct parallels between Taiwan and Ukraine.“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was a wake-up call to us all, and served as a reminder that authoritarianism does not cease in its belligerence against democracy,” Tsai said at a private reception in New York City, which was closed to the press.
“Taiwan has also long endured the peril of living next to an authoritarian neighbor,” she said before a crowd of conservative luminaries at a hotel in Midtown. Taiwan does not seek conflict, said Tsai, reiterating her commitment to maintaining a peaceful status quo in the Taiwan Strait.She is spending two days in New York on her way to Central America, but her visit is deliberately low-key — she has no media appearances while in the United States — to avoid antagonizing Beijing.
The visit was a pretext for “Taiwan independence separatist forces” to promote their cause in Washington, said a spokeswoman for China’s Foreign Ministry, Mao Ning. The Biden administration has been trying to downplay Tsai’s trip. Last week, national security adviser Jake Sullivan held a call with China’s top diplomat Wang Yi to emphasize that the trip was routine.But Beijing may interpret a meeting with an official as high-ranking as McCarthy to have even greater consequence than Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, said Jingdong Yuan, a professor focused on China’s defense policy at the University of Sydney.
Tsai was greeted at John F. Kennedy International Airport by Laura Rosenberger, who recently left the National Security Council to lead the American Institute in Taiwan, the unofficial organization that manages relations between the United States and Taiwan. She has no other meetings planned with members of the Biden administration.
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