(1 Jan 2025)
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Taipei, Taiwan – 01 January 2025
1. Taiwan President Lai Ching-te walking onto stage for news conference
2. Wide of media room at presidential office, TV cameras and journalists
3. Mid of journalists taking notes
4. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Lai Ching-te, Taiwan President:
“The changing international dynamics in the New Year is a fierce challenge to democracies in the world. The Russia-Ukraine war and the Israel-Hamas conflict are still ongoing. Authoritarian countries such as China, Russia, North Korea and Iran are still collaborating to threaten the international order that is based on rules. This has severely influenced the the Indo-Pacific region and the world’s peace and stability.”
5. Wide of the room
6. Mid of Ho Chih-wei, deputy secretary-general of the OIffice of the President
7. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Lai Ching-te, Taiwan President:
“Taiwan must be prepared for danger in times of peace. It must keep increasing the national defense budgets to strengthen its defense capabilities in order to show determination to defend the country. Every single person has the duty to protect Taiwan’s democracy and security.”
8. Journalist using his mobile phone
9. Lai listening to a journalist’s question
10. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Lai Ching-te, Taiwan President:
“We have to use our advantages on semiconductors and Artificial Intelligence, and link up with other democracies to deepen the rigidity of democratic countries’ supply chain. And through international cooperation, we should master the prospective techniques in the fields of drones, low-earth orbit satellites, robots, military industries, security management, or even biotechnology and pharmaceutics, green energy technology, new agriculture and circular economy.”
11. Lai leaving
STORYLINE:
President Lai Ching-te on Wednesday said he would continue to strengthen Taiwan’s defense in the face of China’s threats.
In an address marking the first day of the new year, he underlined how everyone had a duty to protect the island’s democracy.
Lai described China, Russia, North Korea and Iran as "authoritarian countries" that collaborated to threaten the international order.
“Taiwan must be prepared for danger in times of peace," he went on.
China claims Taiwan, a self-ruled democracy of 23 million people, as its own territory.
It has pledged to annex Taiwan, through military force if necessary, and sends ships and military planes near the island almost daily.
Beijing bristles at other countries’ formal exchanges with Taiwan.
The United States, like most countries, doesn’t recognize Taiwan as a country but is its main unofficial backer and sells it arms.
AP video by Taijing Wu
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