U.S.-China summit promises face-to-face meeting without specific timing
Chinese President Xi Jinping told U.S. President Joe Biden that “China has no intention of going to war” ahead of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, the Wall Street Journal reported on the 11th (local time). It was reported by citing a source familiar with the decision-making of
According to the source, Xi called Biden on the 28th of last month and said that if Pelosi visited Taiwan, there would be unspecified consequences, but that “now is not the time for an all-out crisis”.
Both Xi and Biden added that “peace and security must be maintained.”
The source said Xi, who sees putting Taiwan under Chinese control as a key part of China’s vision for revival, was frustrated by Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan despite months of diplomatic efforts.
Liu Pengyu, spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in the US, said in a conversation with President Biden that President Xi detailed China’s principled position on the Taiwan issue.
In response, President Biden explained the division of powers between the legislative, executive and judiciary in the United States and was said to have recalled a visit to Taiwan by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich 25 years ago.
In other words, the US has been committed to the ‘one China’ policy for a long time, but it is interpreted as saying that members of the US Congress, the legislative branch, have the right to visit Taiwan.
However, China has been sensitive to President Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan, because it regards Taiwan as an object to be reunified someday and has focused on blocking official independence for now.
China believes that Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan might create a domino effect, leading to a series of visits by influential figures from the United States and Europe, leading to the promotion of the declaration of independence.
In particular, at a time when dissatisfaction has been rising in China due to the zero-coronavirus policy and city lockdown, it is reported that President Xi made a strong attack in order to block Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.
Xi, however, appears to have called Biden to minimize the US-China conflict, the WSJ analyzed.
Despite these efforts, when Chairman Pelosi visited Taiwan on the night of the 2nd, China immediately responded with a military exercise to contain Taiwan.
The Chinese military launched ballistic missiles over Taiwan and carried out provocations that frequently invaded the midline of the Taiwan Strait with aircraft and warships, but the situation was not created immediately due to rapid control by Taiwan and the United States.
However, China’s strong attack is foreshadowing the beginning of a new phase by causing a backlash from not only Taiwan, but also from neighboring countries in Asia, the United States, and Europe.
In the midst of this, on the 11th, China published a white paper for the first time in 22 years and emphasized its will to apply the Hong Kong-style “one country, two systems” (one country, two systems) following Taiwan unification, reaffirming its position that it does not exclude the use of force for Taiwanese unification. did.
Nevertheless, diplomats believe that Xi will not engage in additional tension-building actions as he is in dire need of stable state management while maximizing domestic support for the 20th Party Congress to be held in late October at the earliest.
Citing a source, the WSJ reported that Xi had decided to maintain communication with President Biden on the phone on the 28th of last month, but decided to hold a face-to-face meeting without a specific schedule.
The time for the face-to-face meeting is expected to come following President Xi confirmed a ‘third term’ at the party congress and President Biden won the midterm elections.
/yunhap news
