🇹🇼⚡- "I want to thank generation after generation of fellow citizens for coming together and staying together through thick and thin," - Lai Ching-te, President of Taiwan.

🇹🇼⚡- "On this land, democracy and freedom are growing and thriving. China has no right to represent Taiwan. The 23 million people of Taiwan, now more than ever, must reach out our branches to embrace the future," - Lai Ching-te, President of Taiwan.

🇹🇼⚡- "My fellow citizens, we have overcome challenge after challenge. All along, Taiwan has shown steadfast resolve," - Lai Ching-te, President of Taiwan.

🇹🇼⚡- "As President, my mission is to ensure that our nation endures and progresses. I will uphold the commitment to resist annexation or encroachment upon our sovereignty," - Lai Ching-te, President of Taiwan.

🇹🇼⚡- "However, Taiwan faces relentless challenges," - Lai Ching-te, President of Taiwan.

🇹🇼⚡- "Expanding authoritarianism is posing a host of challenges to the rules-based international order, threatening our hard-won free and democratic way of life," - Lai Ching-te, President of Taiwan.

🇹🇼⚡- "Taiwan is resolved in our commitment to upholding peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and achieving global security and prosperity," - Lai Ching-te, President of Taiwan.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "We are willing to work with China," - Lai Ching-te, President of Taiwan.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "For a long time now, countries around the world have supported China, invested in China and assisted China. This was done out of the hope that China would join the rest of the world," - Lai Ching-te, President of Taiwan.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "Instead international tensions are on the rise, and each day countless innocents are suffering injuries or losing their lives in conflict," - Lai Ching-te, President of Taiwan.

🇹🇼⚡- "In an era when the international landscape is becoming increasingly chaotic, Taiwan will become more calm, more confident, and stronger," - Lai Ching-te, President of Taiwan.

🇹🇼⚡- "Taiwan will become much stronger," - Lai Ching-te, President of Taiwan.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "Our determination to defend our national sovereignty remains unchanged - this is a dream all 23 million Taiwan's people share," - Lai Ching-te, President of Taiwan.

🇹🇼⚡- "Let’s keep going, Taiwan! Regardless of our differences, let’s keep going forward! Thank you," - Lai Ching-te, President of Taiwan.

End of speech.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇯🇵⚡- "The United States and its allies should form a coalition that can be a sort of NATO in the Indo-Pacific," - Rahm Emanuel, US Ambassador to Japan.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇯🇵⚡- "The idea would need the equivalent of NATO's Article 5 at its core: An attack on one is an attack on all," - Rahm Emanuel, US Ambassador to Japan.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have stormed Lisovka, Pokrovsk direction.

Battles are ongoing at the center of the town. Russian troops are now 5.2km from the city of Pokrovsk.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have advanced within the large town of Petropavlovka, Kupyansk direction.

Ukrainian forces were drone striking Russian positions at 49.73283, 37.69204, just 2.8km from the city of Kupyansk.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "There is but one China in the world. Taiwan is an inalienable part of Chinese territory," - Mao Ning, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "It once again exposed that Lai Ching-te is hellbent on advancing 'Taiwan independence' and has the ill intention of heightening tensions in the Taiwan Strait for his selfish political interest," - Mao Ning, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "Let me stress once again that China opposes all forms of official interactions between Taiwan and countries having diplomatic relations with China, and interference in China's internal affairs in any way and under any excuse," - Mao Ning, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman.