EDITORIAL: Taiwan forced to pick US or ChinaWhile the opposition Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) senior personnel were meeting with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials in China on Tuesday for “economic interactions,” President William Lai (賴清德) in Taipei asserted that Taiwan should cooperate with like-minded democracies instead to advance Taiwan’s economic prosperity. “Taiwan is on the right economic path and is striding confidently onto the world stage. “Do we want to continue collaborating with the US, Japan, Europe and other allied nations to expand economics onto the global stage, or tie ourselves to China?” Lai asked. In the first year of Lai’s presidency, Taiwan’s economic growth rate grew to 8.6 percent, the highest in 15 years and much superior to China’s officially stated 5 percent. The KMT should look back at the history of the Chinese Civil War to remember how it was cheated by the CCP.

Source: Taipei Times February 05, 2026 18:09 UTC