China should destroy its missiles aimed at Taiwan and open peace talks with Taiwan as the first step toward a peaceful solution to cross-strait disputes, Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) Legislator Lo Chih-ming (
Lo, a caucus whip of the pro-independence TSU at the Legislative Yuan, made the remarks when answering questions from reporters after US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said a day earlier in the Fourth Asian Security Conference held in Singapore that China's military expansion will not only hurt the interests of Taiwan and the US, but it will also affect China's other trading partners in Asia.
In recent years, China has been building its military at a two-digit annual growth rate, Lo warned, adding that China is rising as a military power.
In the face of China's fast military buildup, Taiwan should ask the country to renounce its military threats against Taiwan by fully destroying its hundreds of missiles targeting the country, in an event to be observed by the UN or the US to protect security and prosperity in the Strait and the rest of the Asia-Pacific region.
The arms destruction precedence set up by the US and the former Soviet Union can serve as a good example for Taiwan and China, he proposed.
Meanwhile, former president Lee Teng-hui (
The Republic of China, Taiwan's current formal designation, is a laggard name for the country and the international community, Lee said, claiming that the country must be renamed to effectively reach out to the world.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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