KINMEN, Taiwan: Taiwan cherishes its freedom and democracy and no “exterior power” can change its future, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te stated on Friday (Oct 25), visiting delicate frontline islands subsequent to China for the seventy fifth anniversary of a key victory over communist forces.
Taiwan has managed Kinmen, and the Matsu islands to the north, because the defeated Republic of China authorities fled to Taipei in 1949 after dropping a civil conflict with Mao Zedong’s communists.
Lai instructed veterans and relations that the October 1949 Battle of Guningtou, when republican forces beat off an invasion try of Kinmen by the Folks’s Liberation Military “represents our willpower to guard our nation”.
“The Battle of Guningtou makes us realise that democracy and freedom will not be one thing to be taken with no consideration,” Lai stated.
“We treasure a democratic and free lifestyle, and we can not, and won’t, permit any exterior power to alter the way forward for Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu, proper?” Lai added, referring to all of the island teams the federal government controls, although with out straight mentioning China.
Beijing detests Lai as a “separatist” and views democratically ruled Taiwan as its personal territory, a declare he rejects, saying solely Taiwan’s folks can resolve their future.
China staged a day of war games round Taiwan earlier this month it stated had been a warning to “separatist acts”.
