Hsiao Bi-khim (Hsiao, Vice President of Taiwan)

We have a very different idea of how individual freedoms, as well as the role of the state.

This is an ongoing balance that we have to ensure to protect our freedoms.

Well, they are projecting their naval capabilities certainly beyond the immediate coastal area of China.

And it's not only on those artificial islands they are building, but they are projecting their military capabilities even to the Middle East,

the Red Sea, Djibouti, they're building bases elsewhere around the world.

I think those also have some strategic consequences.

The projection of their power, I think in the South China Sea specifically, has to do with their establishing

or denying access to others in whether they are Taiwan contingencies or other security contingencies in this region.

And those deployments, such posturing goes way beyond the immediate vicinity of Taiwan.

Well, spreading disinformation is not unique to Taiwan.

It's a global issue, but the Chinese Communist Party is extremely aggressive at doing that, providing narratives and different stories and kind of amplifying their government propaganda and trying to internalize that in our society.

And some main themes of their current wave of disinformation are aimed at discrediting the institution of Taiwan's democratic government.

They are trying to sow divisions in our society, to sow doubts in our society about the strength of our own democracy.

So, the themes involve, I think, three main points.

They are targeting our partnership with the United States.

All of the Chinese propaganda that we are seeing right now is saying the U.S.

is not reliable, the United States can't be trusted, that this is a very weak partnership, that—

America is arming Taiwan, not for the purpose of defending Taiwan, but to make Taiwan cannon fodder for the global competition with China.

I mean, that is the theme of Chinese propaganda on the U.S.

side.