Taiwan hopes Trump gets better so he will keep resisting China
05 October, 2020
Taiwan hopes that US President Donald Trump will get better from COVID-19 soon in order that he can continue steadily to lead the free world in resisting China's "outrages", the speaker of the island's parliament said on Monday (Oct 5).
Democratic Taiwan has come under increasingly severe military pressure from China, which claims the island as its sovereign territory, with China's air force sending frequent sorties to buzz Taiwan in recent weeks.
Speaking before Taiwan's National Day celebrations on Saturday, parliament Speaker You Si-kun said he had been shocked to listen to of Trump's illness, and that he wished him well with respect to the legislature.
"I would like to take this opportunity to wish him a speedy recovery, so he can continue steadily to lead the free world in resisting the Chinese communists' outrages," You said, without elaborating.
Since Trump took office Sino-US relations have plummeted with their lowest point in decades, with arguments over trade, Hong Kong, Taiwan and multiple other issues.
The Trump administration has made taking a stand to China an integral policy platform, and has been particularly vocal in criticism of China's human rights record, whether in the far western Chinese region of Xinjiang or Chinese-ruled Hong Kong.
While the USA like most countries will not officially recognise Taiwan's government, it really is its main supplier of arms and strongest internationally backer.
Both Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and Chinese President Xi Jinping have offered their finest wishes to Trump and his wife Melania.
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