Taiwan, facing Chinese pressure, to stress importance of peace at APEC summit

Taiwan will stress the importance of peace in the region at next week’s APEC summit, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Friday, one of the few international bodies both Taiwan and China are members of and where their officials meet.
The 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum will meet in San Francisco for the 30th APEC summit, the first hosted by the United States since 2011.
Chinese-claimed and democratically ruled Taiwan, which takes part in APEC as “Chinese Taipei” and does not send its president to summits, has faced increased military pressure from Beijing including two rounds of major war games over the past year and a half.
Tsai told reporters at the presidential office that the first message she wanted her representative to APEC, chip giant TSMC founder Morris Chang, to send at the summit was that Taiwan was dedicated to promoting regional peace and prosperity.