Taiwan VP attends memorial to Japan's Abe as China protests

BEIJING, China: China has formally protested the presence of Lai Ching-te, Taiwan's Vice President, at a memorial for assassinated former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Taiwan is claimed by Beijing to be part of China and has repeatedly said it will be reunited by force, if necessary, rejecting any expression of its independent political identity.

This week at his daily briefing, Foreign Ministry spo