Lai Ching-de in Podcasts

Lai urged the opposition to pass his request for $40 billion in additional defense spending to better prepare Taiwan for the threat of a potential Chinese invasion.

But in a statement, Taiwan's President Lai Ching-de wrote that, History tells us that compromising with authoritarian powers only sacrifices sovereignty and democracy.

Taiwan's president, Lai Ching-de, has repeatedly offered to talk to China, but China has rebuffed each of these outreaches because they say he's a separatist.