Democracy is not a crime and autocracy is the real /”evil,/” Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Monday (June 24) after China threatened to impose the death penalty in extreme cases for /”diehard/” Taiwan independence separatists. China, which views Taiwan as its own territory, has made no secret of its dislike of Lai, who took office last month, saying he is a /”separatist,/” and staged war games shortly after his inauguration. On Friday (June 21), China ramped up its pressure on Taiwan by issuing new legal guidelines to punish those it says support the island’s formal independence, though Chinese courts have no jurisdiction on the democratically governed island.

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