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>I think Lai's speech was not the most extreme because it contained little mention of "democracy vs. autocracy,

PRC doesn't care about democracy vs autocracy framing. It cares about sovereignty framing. It's the "changing status quo" part PRC cares about, the kind of language US strategic ambiguity would used to slap TW politicians for, but likely won't. So yes, this was an extreme speech relative to Tsai. PRC probably going normalize bigger slices past medium line.