Prior to the visit, the Beijing government sent warships and planes to the maritime borderline. The Taiwanese government shows its commitment to stability and warns that military exercises are damaging the peace.
A new delegation from congressmen Americans has landed on Taiwan, just 12 days after the controversial visit of the President of the United States House of Representatives to the United States Congress, Nancy Pelosicconsidered by China to be one of the biggest recent insults against its sovereignty claims against the territory.
The delegation will meet senior officials from the island at a two-day meeting, according to a statement from the American Institute of Taiwan (the United States’ de facto embassy in the area, which has declared itself independent).
The group, bipartisan in nature and led by the Democratic senator from Massachusetts Ed Markey, aims to discuss “bilateral relations, regional security, trade, investment, climate change and other issues of mutual interest”. The senator is joined by Representatives Alan Lowenthal, John Garamendi, Don Beyer and Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen.
After the first meeting, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has warned that China’s military exercises will have major consequences for the peace and the stability and has declared its commitment to maintaining stability.
And it is that, shortly before the plane with the congressmen landed on Sunday afternoon, the Taiwan Ministry of Defense confirmed that six Chinese warships and at least 22 Chinese warplanes had approached the area’s maritime security linein what he has interpreted as Beijing’s umpteenth display of power.
Notably, the ministry confirmed that 11 of the fighter jets briefly crossed the median separating the Taiwan Strait from its air security zone before turning around.
As usual, Taiwan responded by issuing a warning to its troops and warning Chinese devices to leave the scene immediately, according to the ministry’s statement collected on its Twitter account.
United States President Joe Biden this week ruled out the Chinese government going “outside” the military exercises around Taiwan after Pelosi’s controversial visit, he has said a further rise in tensions and a possible war in the zone excluded. .
Ties between China and the island of Taiwan were severed in 1949 after troops of the nationalist Kuomintang Party, led by Chiang Kai Shek, suffered defeat in the civil war against the Communist Party and moved to that archipelago.
Relations between Taiwan and mainland China were only restored on a business and informal level in the late 1980s. The basic policy of the Chinese government towards Taiwan is peaceful reunification according to the “one country, two systems” principle.
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Source: EITB
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