Taiwanese President William Lai urged democratic partners, including a visiting US National Endowment for Democracy delegation, to strengthen security and trade cooperation to counter China's escalating military and gray-zone coercion. This diplomatic push coincided with Beijing's provocative launch of a JL-2 intercontinental ballistic missile from the South China Sea into the South Pacific, which traveled over 7,000 kilometers.
These developments underscore a deteriorating regional security environment characterized by transnational repression, maritime assertiveness, and expanding authoritarian influence across the Indo-Pacific. National Security Council Secretary-General Joseph Wu condemned the missile test, which flew over northern Luzon in the Philippines before landing between Nauru and Tonga, as a destabilizing act of regional bullying. Concurrently, Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim warned the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China that Beijing is intensifying its political and economic pressure on Taipei. To mitigate these multifaceted threats, Taiwan is actively reinforcing its defense, trade, technology, and energy resilience while deepening strategic alliances to safeguard the rules-based international order.
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