Taiwan’s next front-runner for president William Lai says China is attempting to ‘annex’ the island with increased military drills
China said on Wednesday its recent series of drills near Taiwan aimed at combatting the “arrogance” of separatist forces, while the front-runner to be Taiwan’s next president said China was trying to “annex” the island.
Asked about the spurt in drills, and Taiwan’s concerns about increased risk, Zhu Fenglian, the spokeswoman of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, acknowledged the drills by the People’s Liberation Army. She urged people in Taiwan to distinguish between “right and wrong,” resolutely oppose independence for the island, and work with China to maintain peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.
China’s armed forces have not explicitly mentioned or commented on the drills at a time when Chinese Defence Minister Li Shangfu has gone missing from public view. Sources have told Reuters he is being investigated for corruption. Of those, 12 crossed the median line of the Taiwan strait, which had served as an unofficial barrier between the two sides until China began regularly crossing it in August last year.
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