00:00Not far from here, President Lai Ching-de congratulated troops for their year of hard work.
00:05And handed out red envelopes in advance of Lunar New Year.
00:08The event was a celebration.
00:10But President Lai also hinted at rising tensions with China, which claims Taiwan as its territory.
00:15And over the past year, has ramped up military drills and so-called gray zone activity.
00:20To intimidate the country.
00:21Earlier in the day, Lai's office released a letter to Taiwan's only diplomat.
00:25The Vatican, saying any attempt to change Taiwan's status through war
00:30would never bring true peace.
00:31而在去年年底,中国进行
00:35環台军援
00:36第二作战区迅速 vanen
00:39展现
00:40對タイム
00:52is a 40 billion US dollar special defense budget introduced in November, but that package
00:57along with about 20% of the overall defense budget remains frozen in the opposition controlled
01:02legislature.
01:07Thank you very much.
01:12Thank you very much.
01:17As if to hammer the point home, earlier in the day Taiwan
01:22Defense Ministry announced it had tracked 26 PLA aircraft operating around the country.
01:27between Thursday and Friday morning.
01:29Now all of this comes one year before 2027.
01:32At the deadline, Chinese President Xi Jinping has given his country's military to prepare
01:36for an invasion.
01:37With the legislature deadlocked and Chinese military pressure ramping up.
01:42Taiwan and Lai could be facing a difficult year of the horse.
01:45John Tsu and Larry Siano and
01:47Hualien for Taiwan Plus.
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