TAIPEI: Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te warned on Wednesday (Aug 21) that China's "growing authoritarianism will not stop with" the island and urged democratic countries to unite to curb its expansion. China claims Taiwan as part of its territory, and a senior Chinese Communist Party official said on Tuesday that Beijing was confident of "complete reunification" with the island . Speaking at the annual Ketagalan Forum on Indo-Pacific security in Taipei, Lai cautioned that Taiwan was not "the