New tensions between China and the United States. They do not concern the Russian war in Ukraine this time while Washington suspects Beijing of wanting to help Moscow and threatens China with reprisals if such a scenario were to emerge. They concern Taiwan, this democratic and autonomous island claimed by Beijing, which has always expressed its desire to seize it one day, by force if necessary.
Provocation
This Saturday, the day after a meeting on Friday between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping during which the Chinese president also invited his American counterpart to put bilateral relations between China and the United States “on the right track” and stressed that t behooves Beijing and Washington to assume their responsibilities by working together for world peace, the tone has risen a notch on the highly sensitive subject of Taiwan. In question, the presence on March 17 in the Taiwan Strait which separates the island from China, of an American destroyer. A “provocation” for the Chinese army which deplores a “very dangerous” behavior because it sends harmful signals to the separatists.
US Navy ships crossed the strait nearly once a month last year, much to the anger of Beijing, which accuses Washington of stoking tensions in the region. In an email to AFP, the US Department of Defense confirmed that one “of (its) destroyers” had crossed the Taiwan Strait on Friday. But the US warship was not the only one sailing through the Taiwan Strait. get there (…) Read more on La Tribune.fr
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