Taiwan President Warns of China’s Ambition for Global Hegemony at UN Meeting

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te has said in a videotaped address played at a U.N. meeting on Tuesday that China’s communist regime wants to do more than extinguish the island’s democracy. “China’s threat to Taiwan is a threat to the entire international community. China doesn’t just want to change the status quo in the Taiwan Strait. It intends to change the rules-based international order and achieve international hegemony,” Lai said. The videotaped address was shown to an audience at the Concordia Summit, a conference on the sidelines of the 79th session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City....