On August 12, Washington declared its intention to fortify its trade relations with Taiwan and to make new air and sea crossings in the strait, in reaction to China’s “provocative” steps. Kurt Campbell, the White House’s Asia-Pacific coordinator, said that working day that Beijing experienced employed Dwelling Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s modern controversial stop by to Taiwan to consider to reverse the status quo on the island’s placement.
“Where ever intercontinental legislation allows it”
Beijing experienced made use of this pretext to “start a marketing campaign of stress in opposition to Taiwan to improve the status quo, jeopardizing peace and balance across the Taiwan Strait,” by launching multi-day air and sea drills around the island.
American ships and planes will also make new passages in the Taiwan Strait “in the coming weeks,” Kurt Campbell declared at the time. American forces “will go on to fly, sail or work anywhere international legislation authorizes it,” he ongoing, with no specifying the mother nature of the deployments in the strait or their program.
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