Lai Ching-te will give his main national day speech on October 10, which marks the overthrow of the last Chinese dynasty in 1911 and the ushering in of the Republic of China
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Lai, who took office in May after winning election in January, is detested by China which calls him a “separatist”. Beijing claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, a view Lai and his government reject. “Lai Ching-te’s Taiwan independence fallacy is just old wine in a new bottle, and again exposes his obstinate stance on Taiwan independence and his sinister intentions of escalating hostility and confrontation,” it added.
Taiwan’s China policy making Mainland Affairs Council said it was an objective fact that since 1949 the People’s Republic of China had never ruled the island.
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