Beijing has lashed out at Taiwan’s leader for calling the island a country during a speech that the mainland said contained “fabricated fallacies”.In a commentary on Tuesday, People’s Daily, a mouthpiece of mainland China’s ruling Communist Party, said William Lai Ching-te’s speech to a Taiwanese branch of Rotary International on Sunday was “full of various factual errors and historical fallacies” and was highly provocative and harmful.“It was a ‘Taiwan independence’ declaration that blatantly...