War, because, erm, the democracies seem to be able to get together to form a meaningful deterrence, so whenever there is invasion contemplated. So if we deal with the matter very carefully, theres still a great possibility for us to maintain peace as we all need. Cheering. Tsais predecessor, president ma ying jeou, had tried to negotiate with china, even holding a meeting with president xi jinping in singapore. Tsais strategy has been completely different. Instead of trying to conciliate china, shes built up taiwans own defences. Nearly doubling spending, buying new fighterjets and developing taiwans first indigenous submarines. Today, the lion dance is to celebrate the opening of a new Special Forces Training Base on the outskirts of taipei. Another tangible example of where this new Military Spending is going. So i guess for president tsai, this is a sort of demonstration of what shes been trying to achieve in Defence Policy over the last eight years, because, you know, part of her b
A definitive plan because, you know, the world is changing, the situation in china is changing, but the world is very different now, especially after ukrainian war, because, erm, the democracies seem to be able to get together to form a meaningful deterrence, so whenever there is invasion contemplated. So if we deal with the matter very carefully, theres still a great possibility for us to maintain peace as we all need. Cheering tsais predecessor, president ma ying jeou, cheering tsais predecessor, president ma ying jeou, had tried to negotiate with china, even holding a meeting with president xi jinping in singapore. Tsais strategy has been completely different. Instead of trying to conciliate china, shes built up taiwans own defences. Nearly doubling spending, buying new fighterjets and developing taiwans first indigenous submarines. Today, the lion dance is to celebrate the opening of a new Special Forces Training Base on the outskirts of taipei. Another tangible example of where th
translation: over the last eight years, we have tried i continuously to extend goodwill. unfortunately, china has not responded to these gestures. we hope in the future china will realise peace serves the interests of both sides. it s notjust its democratic system that sets taiwan apart from china. five years ago it became the first place in asia to legalise same sex marriage. today, for the first time, mota lin and her partner got to vote together as a family with their three year old daughter. translation: this election is very important. we ve just come back from hong kong, and people there are envious of us. they ve told us we must protect our democracy or we could end up like them. for taiwan s main opposition party, the kmt, today s result was another humiliating defeat. the whole party leadership bowed as they begged
media following his victory, president elect lai was quick to offer beijing an olive branch. translation: over the last eight years, we have tried i continuously to extend goodwill. unfortunately, china has not responded to these gestures. we hope in the future china will realise peace serves the interests of both sides. it s notjust its democratic system that sets taiwan apart from china. five years ago it became the first place in asia to legalise same sex marriage. today, for the first time, this couple got to vote together as a family with their three year old daughter. translation: this election is very important. we ve just come back from hong kong, and people there are envious of us. they ve told us we must protect our democracy or we could end up like them.
continuously to extend goodwill. unfortunately, china has not responded to these gestures. we hope in the future china will realise peace serves the interests of both sides. it s notjust its democratic system that sets taiwan apart from china. five years ago it became the first place in asia to legalise same sex marriage. today, for the first time, this couple got to vote together as a family with their three year old daughter. translation: this election is very important. we havejust come back from hong kong and people there are envious of us. they told us we must protect our democracy or we could end up like them. for taiwan s main opposition party, the kmt, today s result was another humiliating defeat. the whole party leadership bowed as they begged for forgiveness from their supporters.