Taiwanese would no longer have voting rights, Taiwanese would have to circumvent the CCP’s Great Firewall to watch YouTube programs or use Google, and Taiwanese wouldn’t dare to criticize their president Tsai Ing-wen anymore, because they would be arrested

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said in an essay published on Oct. 5 that failure to defend the island would cause “catastrophic” consequences for regional peace and democracy.

He has also voiced his support for Taiwan, prompting Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen to thank him directly via Twitter on Nov. 13.

COPENHAGEN—Denmark's foreign minister defended democratic values alongside Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on May 10, drawing criticism from China, which considers fiercely democratic, self-ruled Taiwan its "sacred" territory.

Beijing has mulled invading Taiwan’s Pratas Islands but will not mount an attack before the island’s president Tsai Ing-wen finishes her term in 2024, a top Taiwanese security official said.

Delegates will meet Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen along with other senior officials.

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has said that the island will do “whatever it takes” to safeguard the island against mounting CCP aggression. U.S.

Gallagher told Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen.

Beijing has won over seven former diplomatic allies of Taiwan, including Sao Tome and Principe, Panama, Dominica, Burkina Faso, El Salvador, the Solomon Islands, and Kiribati, since President Tsai Ing-wen took office in 2016.

President Tsai Ing-wen also visited the Central Epidemic Command Center prior to her inauguration and invited the epidemic control team to attend the ceremony.

Tsai has made modernizing Taiwan's armed forces and increasing defense spending a priority. Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen delivers her inaugural address at the Taipei Guest House in Taipei on May 20, 2020.

(Taiwan Military News Agency/Handout via Reuters) President Tsai Ing-wen attends a Taiwanese Air Force fighter jets take-off and landing drill, as part of the annual Han Kuang drill, in Pingtung, Taiwan, on Sept. 15, 2021.

But President Tsai Ing-wen has stressed the importance of developing an "asymmetrical" deterrent, using mobile equipment that is hard to find and destroy, and capable of hitting targets far from Taiwan's coast.

The last time a ⁠Taiwanese president visited Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland and home to around 1.3 million people, was in 2023, when Tsai Ing-wen made ​the journey. By Ben ‌Blanchard and Yimou Lee

“The more successful Taiwan’s democracy and stronger the support for Taiwan from the international community, the larger pressure from the authoritarian rule camp comes,” Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said on Dec. 10, following Nicaragua's announcement

Earlier this month, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy hosted Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, to push back against the CCP's aggression in the Indo-Pacific region.

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen responded directly to Kanter’s tweet, thanking him for his support. 

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen laid a wreath and bowed her head in respect at a memorial park on Kinmen island, which sits a few kilometres (miles) off the Chinese metropolis of Xiamen, to mark the 62nd anniversary of the start of the second Taiwan Straits

In May 2019, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, held a press conference explaining the need for the island to further advance its asymmetric warfare capabilities in order to counter China’s military threats.

Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen with Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after he was bestowed with an Order of Brilliant Star with Grand Cordon at the presidential building in Taipei on March 3, 2022.

Abbott made the remarks to Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen at the presidential office in Taipei. The former prime minister (who served from 2013 to 2015) said it was critical fellow democratic nations stood “shoulder to shoulder” with Taiwan.

But President Tsai Ing-wen has stressed the importance of developing an "asymmetrical" deterrent, using mobile equipment that is hard to find and destroy, and capable of hitting targets far away from Taiwan.

During 2018, Wang admitted to coordinating a mass disinformation campaign targeting “nine-in-one” regional elections in Taiwan aimed at undermining the administration of Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen.

Taiwan marks its national day on Oct. 10, with a major speech planned by President Tsai Ing-wen and a military parade in central Taipei, which will include a fly-by of fighter jets.

To that end, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has vowed to defend Taiwan from Chinese communist aggression and to protect the island's democratic way of life and thriving market economy.

If anything, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen probably got a phone call immediately after Biden’s remarks to remind her of this.

Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen told reporters on Friday that Taiwan and Ukraine’s situation are fundamentally different, with the former having the Taiwan Strait as a “natural barrier.”

On Feb. 23, Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen ordered the island’s national security agencies and military forces to “ramp up their efforts to monitor and provide early warning of military developments in the Taiwan Strait and surrounding areas,” following

This, as the Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen toured a radar station that monitors missiles from nearby nations. The United States is moving forward with more weapons sales to Taiwan.

Taiwan’s air force said, at around 9 a.m. (01:00 GMT), shortly before Azar met Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, China flew J-11 and J-10 fighter aircraft briefly onto Taiwan’s side of the sensitive and narrow strait that separates it from its giant neighbor