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https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/50779967
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Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te said if China were to take Taiwan, Beijing would become “more aggressive, undermining peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific and the rules-based international order.”
“If Taiwan were annexed by China, China’s expansionist ambitions would not stop there,” Lai told AFP during an exclusive interview on Tuesday at the Presidential Office Building in Taipei.
“The next countries under threat would be Japan, the Philippines, and others in the Indo-Pacific region, with repercussions eventually reaching the Americas and Europe,” he said.
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China has competing territorial claims with Japan and the Philippines, while the Taiwan Strait is a major artery for global shipping.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, whose country hosts several US bases and around 60,000 American troops, suggested in November that Tokyo could intervene militarily if China attacked Taiwan, drawing a furious response from Beijing.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos has also warned the archipelago nation, where US troops have access to nine military bases, would “inevitably” be dragged into a war over Taiwan.
“In this changing world, nations belong to a global community – a situation in any one country would inevitably impact another,” Lai said.
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