The biggest challenge is to face the powerful rise of China, which is destroying the status quo in the Taiwan Strait and regards Taiwan's annexation and the elimination of the Republic of China as the great rejuvenating cause of its people.
The highest mission is to bravely take up the heavy responsibility and grand task of protecting Taiwan, and safeguarding the peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.
Lai said only Taiwan's people can decide their future and has repeatedly offered talks with Beijing but has been rebuffed.
Wang Huning, the fourth-ranked leader in China's ruling Communist Party, told a Saturday forum in China about relations with Taiwan that reunification is a historical necessity for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, pledging to smash any separatist plots.
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