'Autocracy not democracy is the crime,' Lai says to China

President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) said Monday that autocracy, not democracy, is deserving of punishment in response to the recent threat by Chinese authorities to impose the death penalty on "diehard" advocates of Taiwan independence.

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