Taiwan President Urges Peaceful Resolution with China.

Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen has pledged to maintain peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait amid high tensions with China, which has increased military pressure on the democratically governed island. Tsai said Taiwan will not provoke and will not bow to Chinese pressure, adding that war is not an option and maintaining the status quo of peace and stability is the consensus for both the world and Taiwan. She also stressed the global importance of Taiwan's supply chain, which produces most of the world's advanced semiconductor chips, and vowed to keep the most advanced chip technologies and research and development centres in Taiwan.