Taiwanese speaker says island must become ‘fish bone’ that Xi Jinping would choke on


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TAIPEI, Taiwan — The leader of Taiwan’s legislature argued that the democratic island must pursue deterrence against an invasion from China by becoming like a “fish bone” that Chinese leader Xi Jinping would not want to try to eat and could not swallow without choking. You Si-kun, the president of the Legislative Yuan, a position akin to the U.S. speaker of the House in Taiwan’s unicameral parliamentary body, made the comments on Friday during a press conference with members of Congress following a high-profile visit by a U.S. delegation to a session of Taiwan’s legislature that was heavily covered by...