TAIPEI: Taiwan does not seek conflict with China and will not provoke confrontation, but Beijing's "aggressive" military posturing was counterproductive, Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim said on Friday (Jul 18). China considers democratic Taiwan as part of its own territory and calls President Lai Ching-te a "separatist". Taiwan's government disputes China's claim. Speaking to the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents' Club in the capital Taipei, Hsiao said that Chinese pressure on Taiwan had only