Taiwan Must Look to Democracies, Not China, for Trade Cooperation, President Says

Lai was speaking as the deputy chairman of Taiwan's main opposition party the Kuomintang (KMT), Hsiao Hsu-tsen, was in Beijing for a think-tank exchange with China's Communist Party on ostensibly non-political issues like AI and tourism.

Taiwan looks to democratic partners over China as Lai sets out for trade cooperation

President Lai Ching-te said Taiwan must work with fellow democracies rather than China as his government detailed new economic and technology cooperation with the United States

Taiwan, China react sharply differently to Japan's Taiwan remarks

China and Taiwan responded in starkly different ways to remarks by Japanese PM Takaichi Sanae on possible intervention in event of Taiwan contingency