‘Taiwan stands with Ukraine’: President Tsai pledges month’s pay for relief efforts

By Reuters

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, Vice-President William Lai and Premier Su Tseng-chang will each donate a month’s salary towards humanitarian relief efforts in Ukraine, as its fight to repel a Russian military invasion entered a seventh day.The war has generated widespread sympathy in Taiwan for Ukraine’s people, due to the threat the self-ruled island says it faces on a daily basis from mainland China. Beijing views Taiwan as its own territory and has stepped up military pressure to assert…

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