In Taiwan, a samurai sword-wielding attacker carrying the national flag of China slashed a military police guard outside presidential office in Taipei today. Police said, the Taiwanese man who was arrested at the scene said, he was expressing his political views and had stolen the sword from a nearby history museum.<br/><br/>The attacker is being questioned by police. The injured guard is in a stable condition after being rushed to hospital for treatment.<br/><br/>The presidential office in the centre of the capital Taipei is the headquarters of Taiwan's Beijing-sceptic President Tsai Ing-wen. Relations with Chinese authorities have deteriorated since she took office last year as she has refused to agree to Beijing's stance that Taiwan is part of one-China. The island is a self-ruling democracy, but Beijing still sees it as part of its territory to be reunited.