TAIPEI — China should have the confidence to talk to Taiwan's legally elected government, Taiwan's President-elect Lai Ching-te said on April 25 as he appointed his new national security and diplomacy team amid what he called unprecedented challenges.
Taiwan President-elect Lai Ching-te has appointed his new national security and diplomacy team.TAIPEI — China should have the confidence to talk to Taiwan's legally elected government, Taiwan's President-elect Lai Ching-te said on April 25 as he appointed his new national security and diplomacy team amid what he called unprecedented challenges.
The challenge that the new national security team is facing is unprecedented, given the rise of authoritarianism, and China pressing closer all the time, Lai told reporters as he announced the team, staffed by people in the current administration."I am very much looking forward to China having the confidence to engage with the elected and legitimate government that the Taiwan people have entrusted. That is the right way for cross-strait exchange," he said.
Taiwan's National Security Council secretary-general Wellington Koo, a lawyer by training, will take over as defence minister from Chiu Kuo-cheng, a former army commander, Lai said.
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