Taiwanese Rep Asserts Island Nation’s Stance On Independence From Communist China, Denies ‘Creating All This Trouble’

Taiwan’s representative to the United States said Sunday his country only seeks to ensure the Communist People’s Republic of China does not “swallow” the island nation.

President Donald Trump met Thursday and Friday with Chinese President Xi Jingping in Beijing. Trump then appeared to signal a softening of America’s approach to Taiwan, formally known as the Republic of China, in a Friday interview with Fox News host Bret Baier. Taiwanese representative Alexander Yui, while reacting to Trump’s statements from the interview, told “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan his country was not exasperating tensions in Asia.

“President Trump doesn’t want a war 9,500 miles away. We don’t want a war, you know. We want peace and stability. We want to have our lives going as, you know, as usual,” Yui said. “But we’re not the ones creating all this trouble.”

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“And that’s why, you know, it’s like our house: those are intruders trying to get into our house; we’re trying to beef up our security system,” Yui continued. “And then they complain— the intruder complains that, because we’re trying to improve our security system, it’s making his job harder.”

For decades China has claimed Taiwan is a renegade province while the island nation has received military support from the United States. Yui, however, stated Taiwan was appreciative that Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio publicly stated during their time in Beijing there was no change in the U.S.’s “longstanding position” on Taiwan.

“What is meant by ‘Taiwan independence’?” Yui stated. “My president just made a statement recently, just now, and it means that Taiwan is independent from the Chinese aggression, from the PRC , actually. The formal name of my country is Republic of China, and we’re not subordinate to the People’s Republic of China, in any way, at all, and that’s maintaining our sovereignty, our way of life, our democracy, our vibrant economy, our high-tech production. And that is, that is what is meant by ‘independence.’ We are sovereign, independent away from the Chinese People’s Republic of China’s attempt to swallow us as one of their own. They have never ruled or controlled Taiwan, ever.”