2023-08-13 07:01:19
China has promised “firm measures” in the face of the visit to the United States of the vice-president of Taiwan, while the Taiwanese authorities claim that he is only transiting.
The transition from William Lai, the vice-president of Taiwan, in the United States tenses up China. The Middle Kingdom promised Sunday “firm measures” against the visit of this one across the Atlantic, because it sees this stay as an attack on its claims of sovereignty on the island.
Taiwanese authorities claim that William Lai is only transiting American soil before joining the Paraguay, where he must attend the entry into office of the new president, Santiago Peña. The country is one of the last to officially recognize Taipei.
But the leader, with assumed independence positions and as such Beijing’s pet peeve, could meet American political figures during his stay in New Yorkwhere he says he arrived this Sunday.
“China firmly opposes any form of official contact between the United States and Taiwan and firmly opposes any separatists advocating Taiwanese independence traveling to the United States,” a doorman said. -speaker of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“China is closely following ‘William Lai’s visit’ and will take firm and vigorous measures to safeguard its sovereignty and territorial integrity,” he said in a statement.
Chinese maneuvers
China views with suspicion the meetings in recent years between Taiwanese leaders and representatives of certain Western countries, in particular the United States, because they confer a form of legitimacy on the authorities of the island.
The Chinese army had organized three-day maneuvers in April around Taiwan in response to a meeting in the United States between Speaker of the US House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen.
During the week before William Lai’s departure, the Chinese military presence around Taiwan has thus been larger than usual.
“The root cause of the tensions in the Taiwan Strait is the Taiwanese authorities’ attempt to rely on the United States to achieve independence and the United States’ insistence on using Taiwan to contain China.” , Beijing lamented on Sunday.
The United States, which granted diplomatic recognition to the People’s Republic of China in 1979, remains Taiwan’s strongest ally, however, as well as its main arms supplier.
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