Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen visited army engineers on Saturday and reviewed their training, saying that defending democracy is the armed forces' 'great mission', ahead of a trip next week to the US and Central America.
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China, which views Taiwan as its territory, has stepped up its military and political pressure over the past three years or so to try to force the island to accept Chinese sovereignty, viewing Tsai as a separatist. At the end of the trip, Tsai is expected to meet US House speaker Kevin McCarthy in Los Angeles. China staged war games near Taiwan in August after then-US House speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taipei.
“Protecting Taiwan and defending democracy has always been our military's great mission,” she told the soldiers, accompanied by Taiwan's defence minister Chiu Kuo-cheng and national security council secretary-general Wellington Koo.
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