Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has revealed that he is visiting Taiwan with the hopes of ending the island’s isolation on the international stage. The visit comes amid heightened tensions in the Taiwan Strait with Beijing and ongoing moves by democratic nations to bolster alliances against Chinese Communist Party (CCP) aggression in the region. Abbott made the remarks to Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen at the presidential office in Taipei. The former prime minister (who served from 2013 to 2015) said it was critical fellow democratic nations stood “shoulder to shoulder” with Taiwan. “It is in large measure to try to help to end this isolation from which Taiwan has been suffering for so many decades that I am here in this country, and I do hope that this will be the first for many visits,” he said. “Taiwan is in many respects a model for the wider world,” Abbott …
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