Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen. File photoBEJING, Aug 11China's military threat level has not decreased, but Taiwan is ready to defend its freedom and democracy, Taiwan's chief executive Cai Ing-wen said on Thursday. protect our sovereignty and the security of our country. Protect our freedom and democracy,» Tsai Ing-wen said, speaking to the Taiwan Air Combat Command. She added that the mission of the Taiwanese military is to be ready for war, but not to seek it, to accept the challenge without giving in to it. />The West will not strangle China in any way. Although trying very hard, the situation around Taiwan has escalated since the recent visit of Nancy Pelosi, which was the first visit by the speaker of the US House of Representatives to Taiwan since 1997. The US administration, which was warned by Chinese President Xi Jinping that «playing with fire risks getting burned,» assured Beijing of its commitment to the «one China» policy, but distanced itself from the visit, saying that Pelosi makes decisions herself. China considers the island its province and always opposes any contact between Taipei representatives and active officials, especially high-ranking officials, or the military from countries with which Beijing has diplomatic relations. The Communist Party of China forces the Kuomintang led by Chiang Kai-shek moved to Taiwan. Business and informal contacts between the island and mainland China resumed in the late 1980s. Since the early 1990s, the parties began to contact through non-governmental organizations — the Beijing Association for the Development of Relations across the Taiwan Strait and the Taipei Cross-Strait Exchange Foundation. create a crisis and then blame others for it, China's defense ministry says
