Via Domainfax:
In an exclusive interview with Fairfax Media, Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said democracies should boost co-operation to combat Beijing’s tactics and argued Asian countries had a stake in protecting Taiwan because its fall would start a domino effect that would see them “taken down by China one by one”.
…Since the 2016 election of President Tsai Ing-wen of the traditionally pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party, Beijing has turned up the heat on Taipei, peeling away a handful of its remaining diplomatic allies, excluding it from international forums, forcing global airlines to classify it as part of China, and conducting military exercises designed to intimidate.
According to government officials and analysts, the CCP has also reached directly into domestic Taiwanese politics, sowing division and confusion through online disinformation and “fake news”, recruiting business and military figures, and funnelling money to pro-Beijing politicians.
Sounds kind of familiar.
