US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Wednesday urged China to avoid Using Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen’s passage through US territory, As an “excuse” to take actions that increase tensions with Ada.
AlrightNO you should not use transitions as an excuse to take actions that increase tension.Blinken said at a press conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels at the end of a two-day meeting that one of the issues that Alliance foreign ministers discussed was China.
This is how the head of US diplomacy responded when asked about US House of Representatives leader Kevin McCarthy’s meeting with Tsai in California, which was planned on the scale of the president and was opposed by China.
“I think the first thing to underline is that these transitions were made by high-ranking Taiwanese officials. they are nothing new”, recalled Blinken, who pointed out that these have been produced by both Tsai and his predecessors on an official or private level “for years”.
Actually, “all heads taiwan passed United States of America at one time or another”, commented.
However, he made it clear that the US maintains a “very consistent” and “unshakable” approach to Taiwan, including its commitment to the “one China” policy.
“Our goal is the same: Ensuring peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and ensure that any conflict between mainland China and Taiwan is resolved peacefully,” he said.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning said at a news conference today that his country firmly opposes any form of official contact between US officials and Taiwan as it gravely violates the “one China” principle.
The island is one of the biggest sources of conflict between China and the USA.mainly because Washington is Taiwan’s main supplier of arms and its biggest military ally in the event of a war with China.
China claims sovereignty over Taiwan, which it considers a rebellious state The Kuomintang nationalists withdrew from there in 1949 after losing the civil war against the communists.