Beijing accused Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te of “prostituting himself” to foreign powers after he praised U.S. President Donald Trump during a recent interview on “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.” Lai, who is set to deliver his National Day address in Taipei on Friday, told the conservative U.S.
radio program that Trump would deserve a Nobel Peace Prize if he could persuade Chinese President Xi Jinping to renounce any military action against Taiwan. In response, China’s
Taiwan Affairs Office said Lai was “squandering the flesh and blood of the people” and “throwing in his lot with foreign forces.”