my guest is the taiwanese digital minister, audrey tang. can taiwan really forge its own path? minister audrey tang in taipei, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. really happy to be here. president xi of china reiterated at the recent chinese communist party congress that china wants to strive for the prospect of peaceful unification with taiwan, but that he will never promise to give up the option to use force. just sum up briefly the mood for us, the reaction to that possibly new threat. well, there s a familiar message. we ve been hearing that for quite some time. of course, we have to prepare ourselves to face the authoritarian expansionism, but that has been the case for as long as i can remember. so people have not been at all worried by this renewed threat? not especially worried. of course, we ve been seeing renewed interest in, for example, countering disinformation, cybersecurity attacks and so on. but i think the overall mood is quite calm. ok, because china has claime
While there is plenty of daylight between the DPP and KMT, the two parties have converged on remarkably similar positions with regards to national sovereignty.
care more about state as a full fledged member, a partner to the democratic community more than anything else. but you are part of a government, i appreciate you are nonpartisan and not a member of the dpp, but president tsai ing wen s comments are quite puzzling. for example, in 2020, she told the bbc that, we don t have a need to declare independence. we are an independent country already and call ourselves the republic of china. what does she mean by that? well, the roc government officially relocated to taiwan in the 19405. and ever since then, we say roc taiwan, with or without the parenthesis, to symbolise that when we talk about the roc now, it means that the people in this free country elects the president directly since 1996 and so on. and so they have become like
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