'Taiwan Will Do Whatever It Takes to Defend Itself,' President Says


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Taiwan is on the front lines of "the global contest between the liberal democratic order and the authoritarian alternative," the country's leader has said in a wide-ranging essay that echoed President Joe Biden 's rallying cry against autocracy. Tsai Ing-wen's words, published by Foreign Affairs on Tuesday, came after four days of large-scale training missions by Chinese military planes in the skies near Taiwan. The State Department and White House said the U.S. was " very concerned " by the flights into Taiwan's air defense identification zone, which totaled 149 sorties as of Monday. "Taiwan does not seek military confrontation,"...