In remarks at an airport outside Taipei before her departure, Tsai said, “We are calm and confident, will neither yield nor provoke. Dueling trips and diplomatic shifts“The people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are Chinese people” and share the same ancestor, Ma said Tuesday in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, using an expression that refers to Chinese people in terms of ethnicity, rather than nationality. to continue to support Taiwan’s self-defense, Weiss said, as well as to strengthen its own military presence in the Asia-Pacific