Taiwan president says China has no right to sanction Taiwan’s people

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Monday that China has no right to sanction Taiwan’s people or go after their rights, after China threatened to impose the death penalty in extreme cases for “diehard” Taiwan independence separatists.

China should talk to Taiwan’s legitimately elected government and recognize its existence, and if it does not then relations will only drift further apart, he told reporters at the presidential office in Taipei.