A number of Taiwan’s civil groups are urging candidates for upcoming local elections to pledge to “defend Taiwan, and never surrender.”
Facing escalating military coercion by the communist regime and infiltration by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on the island, local civil societies held a joint press conference in Taipei, urging candidates to pledge their determination to defend Taiwan.
Taiwan’s local elections, known as nine-in-one elections, with people voting for nine categories of local officials and councilors, will be held on Nov. 26.
In the conference on Sept. 5, candidates from all political parties, particularly candidates for mayor and county commissioner, were called on to sign the pledge of “no surrender and no capitulation.”…