Taiwan's legislature passes changes seen as favouring China, reducing president's power
Tuesday, 28 May 2024 Taiwan's opposition-controlled legislature passed changes favoring China, diminishing the power of the president, sparking protests. The changes give greater budget control to the legislature, including defense spending. Uncertainty remains if the bills will become law amid protests outside the legislature.
Taiwan's opposition-controlled legislature, led by the Nationalist Party, passed changes increasing its budgetary control, including over defense spending, seen as favoring China.
China's recent two-day military drills around Taiwan have sparked outrage and concern. Described as a "blatant provocation to the international order" by Taipei, the war games were launched just three..
Beijing's defence ministry spokesman Wu Qian says Taiwanese President Lai Ching-tse "has seriously challenged the one-China principle... pushing our compatriots in Taiwan into a perilous situation of..
China Holds First-Ever , Military Drill Simulating a , Full-Scale Invasion of Taiwan.
BBC reports that China has opened two days of military
drills near Taiwan, calling the exercises..
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Tuesday, 28 May 2024
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