China has 'no right to represent Taiwan,' Lai says in National Day address (update)

President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) said in his first National Day address on Thursday that China has "no right to represent Taiwan" and reiterated that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are "not subordinate" to each other.

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