Taipei, March 13 -- Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te on Thursday vowed to bolster the country's national security in response, including reinstatement of the military trials, to what he described as the "unchanged" annexation ambitions of the "hostile foreign force" China, Channel News Asia (CNA) reported.

Addressing a press conference in Taipei, Lai stated that China's attempts to "annex Taiwan and eliminate the Republic of China" had not wavered. Instead, he noted, Beijing had intensified efforts to infiltrate Taiwanese society and sow division through influence operations.

"Such a China constitutes a hostile foreign force, as defined in our country's Anti-Infiltration Act," Lai said at the Presidential Office.

Lai emphasised that in ...