WASHINGTON: The speaker of Taiwan's parliament praised Japan, South Korea and the Philippines on Tuesday (May 16) for helping to create a 'crescent of defence' with Taiwan and the US against China's ambitions in the Indo-Pacific region. Speaking in Washington, You Si-kun told the Hudson Institute think tan
WASHINGTON: The speaker of Taiwan's parliament praised Japan, South Korea and the Philippines on Tuesday for helping to create a"crescent of defence" with Taiwan and the US against China's ambitions in the Indo-Pacific region.
"The CCP wants to see the East rise and the West to decline," You said."We can say that protecting Taiwan equates to defending both Europe and the United States." You praised Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol for calling Taiwan a global issue and opposing a change to the status quo by force. He said this had"offset" remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron that a conflict in the Taiwan Strait had nothing to do with Europe.
"The crescent of defence formed by Korea, Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines will, with American support, be a key stabilizer of peace and security in the Indo-Pacific region," he added.
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