Reference News Network, December 3 report (text by Hong Muxuan) On the morning of December 3, the Taiwan Affairs Office held a regular press conference. A reporter asked, recently, Lai Ching-te wrote an article in a U.S. media claiming to invest 1.25 trillion New Taiwan dollars (1 New Taiwan dollar is approximately 0.23 Chinese yuan - this website notes) as a special defense budget, which caused a stir among people on the island. The local media criticized Lai Ching-te for "playing with fire," believing that aside from preparing for war, other aspects of people's livelihood will be unable to proceed, and that Taiwan has become a cash machine. What is your comment on this?
Zhang Han, spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office, said that Lai Ching-te is unprincipled in his foreign worship and unscrupulous in selling out the country, rushing down the path of "independence" provocation and militarism, squandering the people's hard-earned money, and promoting "everyone is a soldier," willing to turn Taiwan into a battlefield and the people into cannon fodder. He is wasting money that could have been used to improve people's livelihood on buying weapons and fattening foreign arms dealers, which will only push Taiwan into a more dangerous situation of war.
She emphasized that "Taiwan independence" means war. She hopes the vast majority of Taiwanese compatriots can recognize the extreme danger and harm of Lai Ching-te's "Taiwan independence inciting war," firmly oppose "Taiwan independence" secession and external interference, and work with us to promote the return of cross-strait relations to the track of peaceful development, and effectively safeguard the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait and their own security and well-being. She warned Lai Ching-te and the Democratic Progressive Party authorities not to play with fire; those who play with fire will be burned themselves. "Using military force to seek 'Taiwan independence' and taking reckless risks will only dig their own graves!"
Spokesperson Zhang Han of the Taiwan Affairs Office (photo by Hong Muxuan)
Original text: toutiao.com/article/7579474136368726568/
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