TAIPEI — The head of Taiwan's top China policy body said on Thursday that the democratic island would never surrender in the face of intensifying pressure from a "more aggressive" Beijing.

China claims Taiwan as part of its territory, and has said it would never renounce the use of force to bring the self-ruled island under its control.

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