Tsai Ing-wen says self-ruled island is ‘on the front lines’ in the fight for democracy, while US president accuses China of undermining peace

Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, has said the threat from China is growing “every day”, as US president Joe Biden criticised Beijing’s recent actions in the Taiwan Strait, calling them “coercive”.

Tsai told CNN “Taiwan is on the front lines” in the fight for democracy and that the Chinese Communist party needed to decide what sort of relationship it wanted with the world.

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