Turning Up The Heat: China Continues Its Years Long Military Pressure Campaign Around Taiwan

Turning Up The Heat: China Continues Its Years Long Military Pressure Campaign Around Taiwan

By Naomi Park & Brent Sadler, The Daily Signal | July 02, 2025 “Taiwan is, of course, a country,” proclaimed the island’s President Lai Ching-te on June 22. In his first of a series of 10 lectures, Lai reaffirmed that Taiwan’s sovereignty derives from its 23 million people, earning him a swift rebuke from Beijing. True to form, Beijing resorted to calling Lai’s speech “a ‘Taiwan independence’ declaration that blatantly incited cross-strait confr…