Taiwan is not seeking war with China, defence minister says

TAIPEI – Taiwan is not seeking war with Beijing, and its policy is to build up a defensive, multi-level deterrence capability to make it harder for China to capture the island, Taiwan Defence Minister Wellington Koo said on Monday.

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te on Sunday said that China views the annexation and "elimination" of Taiwan as its great national cause, telling Taiwanese military cadets not to give in to the defeatism of "the first battle is the last battle", a theory that Taiwan could collapse as soon as China launched an attack.

"It's not an issue of how long we can last. Our strategy, our hypothesis, is asymmetric warfare to build our multi-domain deterrence, and during this process to weaken" China's ability to invade, he said. China says Lai is a "dangerous separatist" who risks conflict by pushing for Taiwan's formal independence. Lai says only Taiwan's people can decide their future, and has repeatedly offered talks with Beijing but been rebuffed."We have never sought war. We are very clear that our entire strategy is defensive operations," he added.

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