US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinkenaffirmed this Friday that the military exercises of China in the Taiwan Strait are “provocative actions” and represent a “significant escalation” that “has no justification” and He stressed that Washington has never wanted to “provoke a crisis.”
“China has chosen to overreact. There is no justification for this extreme and disproportionate response,” Blinken said during a press conference in Phnom Penh, where he is participating until today in the ministerial meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Blinken insisted that “there is no justification” for Chinese military exercises to as a result of the visit to the island on Wednesday by the president of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, which has been the hot topic of the meetings held these days in the Cambodian capital.
According to the US Secretary of State China used Pelosi’s visit, of which I was warned, “as a pretext to increase its provocative military activity” in and around the Taiwan Strait.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense denounced that China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) ships and warplanes crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait on Friday, which functions as an unofficial border but is tacitly respected by China and Taiwan, the island. self-governed state whose sovereignty Beijing claims.
military exercises, are developed in six zones around the islandenclosing it in practice, have included long-range target practice with conventional missiles, in addition to the aerial deployment of fighters and bombers.
Blinken assured that the US nothing has changed in its policy towards Taiwan and that it does not pursue a change in the “status quo” of the island nor does it support its independence.
Taiwan, with whom the US does not maintain official relations, is one of the main sources of conflict between China and the US, mainly because Washington is the main supplier of weapons to the island and would be its greatest military ally. in case of war conflict with the Asian giant.
China insists on “reunifying” the People’s Republic with the island, which has been governed autonomously since the nationalists of the Kuomintang (KMT) withdrew there in 1949 after losing the civil war against the communists and continued with the regime of the Republic of China, which culminated in the transition to democracy in the decade from 1990.
Source: Eluniverso
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