TAIPEI ¨C Taiwan¡¯s outgoing President Tsai Ing-wen plans to flee in a U.S. plane if war erupts with China, according to an unsubstantiated report first published in 2021 and echoed in the run-up to the island¡¯s January 2024 general election.
Another story said Tsai had given her confidants VIP ¡°runaway¡± passes.
They are among the many unsupported tales of Tsai¡¯s preparations to escape harm that have been fed into the island by Chinese state media outlets, according to an analysis conducted by the Information Environment Research Center (IORG), a Taiwan-based nongovernment organization.
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