TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan seeks "peaceful coexistence" with China with free and unrestricted interaction between people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Tuesday in her national day speech.
"We are willing to take the Taiwan public consensus as a basis, conditioned with dignity and reciprocity, and with a process of democratic dialogue, to develop with the Beijing authorities a mutually acceptable foundation for interaction and a path to peaceful coexistence," she said.
China claims democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory.
(Reporting by Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard; Editing by Shri Navaratnam)