Security meeting called in response to Chinese military exercises – President William Lai called a high-level national security meeting today asking the armed forces and other government agencies to address military exercises that China announced that it had launched around Taiwan since this morning, according to the Taipei Times.
The country’s armed forces are “fully monitoring” the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) exercises, and the Yuan executive is also paying attention to other issues related to social stability, the spokeswoman said. presidential office Karen Kuo (郭雅慧).
President William Lai, third from right, convenes a high-level security meeting this morning in response to China’s military exercises. Photo by William Lai on Facebook
In a statement, Kuo reiterated Taipei’s emphasis on “the importance of maintaining peace and stability along the Taiwan Strait and the Indo-Pacific region,” which she said is also a “broad consensus in the international community.
The country’s armed forces are “closely monitoring” the exercises of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), and the Executive Yuan is also paying attention to other issues related to social stability, the spokeswoman of the presidential office Karen Kuo said. “China must face the reality of the existence of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and respect the choice of the Taiwanese people for a democratic and free way of life,” he said. “It must stop its military provocations that undermine regional peace and stability and stop threatening Taiwan’s democracy and freedom.”
“China should understand the goodwill expressed by the president on the occasion of National Day and deal with its own economic and livelihood problems instead of insisting on using military force to coerce neighboring countries,” he said.
