‘We want to be prepared for a possible Chinese invasion,’ Taiwanese FM Joseph Wu says

Wu hopes that fellow democracies around the world realise that if China invades Taiwan, which has a very strategic location, the rest of the Indo-Pacific region could face the same fate. To prevent this scenario, the minister says the island is trying to prepare itself, and wants to procure weapons from fellow democracies. 

He also stresses that Taiwan is a self-sufficient democracy, meaning Taiwanese people do not want to live under an authoritarian regime like that in the People’s Republic of China. According to Wu, the world must unite to prevent China from expanding at all cost. 

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