# Premier Lai tells the Legislative Yuan he is a pragmatic worker for Taiwan independence Date: 2017 ## The fact On 26 September 2017, in his first administrative report as premier, Lai told lawmakers he was ‘a political worker who advocates Taiwan independence’ and a ‘pragmatic’ one, adding that the two sides of the Strait are independent of each other and that the ROC and PRC are mutually non-subordinate. Beijing’s TAO condemned the line. It is the dated ‘new two-state’ file still quoted against him. He was premier, not president. ## Context Tsai was president. Neighbouring Tainan mayoralty sat as parent career. He did not write a PRC Anti-Secession Law. A premier interpellation is not a 2024 gazette. 2018 Forward-looking phase 2 is a neighbouring premier instrument. 20 May 2024 inaugural line is a child restatement. The president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) is head of state under the Additional Articles and commander-in-chief. He does not write a PLA communique, a TSMC capex print, or a Legislative Yuan majority. A National Day address is not a completed interceptor. An inaugural line is not a PLA missile. A special-act press conference is not a passed statute. [William Lai](/people/lai-ching-te) is a common English name for the same person; the stored English name is Lai Ching-te. ## Evidence and sources Office of the President ROC (Taiwan) carries the official instrument or communique. South China Morning Post records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is polarisation: a completed premier statement that became the standing ‘new two-state’ charge. ## What is established and what is not Established: 26 September 2017 interpellation, independently reported. Not established: that he uniquely declared a new state that hour, or a unique later PLA-casualty coefficient from that Tuesday. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Tsai’s status-quo line sat as parent. Beijing quoted the sentence for years.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Premier Lai tells the Legislative Yuan he is a pragmatic worker for Taiwan independence, not a later speech about Premier Lai tells the Legislative Yuan he is a pragmatic worker for Taiwan independence. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Premier Lai tells the Legislative Yuan he is a pragmatic worker for Taiwan independence on 2017-09-26 is not a licence to treat every later Office of the President ROC (Taiwan) communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Premier Lai tells the Legislative Yuan he is a pragmatic worker for Taiwan independence into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He spoke as premier. Tsai’s status-quo line sat as parent. Beijing quoted the sentence for years. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Lai Ching-te: https://factrail.ai/people/lai-ching-te ## Drivers - Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization - Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion ## Sources - https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2113009/taiwans-new-premier-risks-beijings-wrath-after - https://english.president.gov.tw/Page/5 ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tw-lai-independence-2017