He told cadets at a military academy that they must know their enemy and not give in to defeatism.
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te visits the Republic of China Military Academy, an officer training academy, for its 100th anniversary celebrations in Kaohsiung, on June 16.
Speaking in Kaohsiung in the south of the island on the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Whampoa Military Academy, he said today’s cadets must recognise the challenges of the “new era”. Mr Lai, at the event attended by senior military officials and also the top US diplomat in Kaohsiung, Mr Neil Gibson, said the cadets must defend Taiwan against being annexed by China and that the island’s future can be decided only by its people.
The academy was founded in China’s Guangzhou – then known in English as Canton – in 1924, more than a decade after the establishment of the Republic of China, which overthrew the last emperor.
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