Blinken thinks US-China tensions are lowering.
In an interview at the University of Chicago, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced that tensions with China are decreasing, but reiterated “Washington’s concerns about Taiwan”.
Blinken said: “I think the tensions are decreasing because when you move toward dialogue and cooperation, the tendency is for the tensions to decrease.”
He also added: “The rest of the world expects us to manage this relationship responsibly, because other countries know that this relationship will affect them as well.”
According to the American media, the foreign minister of this country is going to visit Beijing on February 5 (16th of Bahman) to meet his Chinese counterpart. The announcement of the US Secretary of State’s visit to China is made after the recent visit of the high-ranking US delegation to Beijing. The trip of this high-level delegation was the introduction and preparation for the trip of Anthony Blinken.
According to the statement of the US State Department, Daniel Kreitenbrink, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and Laura Rosenberger, Senior Director of the National Security Council of China and Taiwan, will visit China, Korea from December 11 to 14 (20 to 23). South and Japan traveled.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden recently met on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Indonesia and discussed the issue of Taiwan and North Korea.
Following the controversial visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the island of Taiwan in early August, tensions in the Taiwan Strait escalated. Beijing condemned Pelosi’s visit and considered it a form of support for the separatists, and in response, held a large-scale and unprecedented exercise around the air and water space of the island of Taiwan. Despite this reaction, after Pelosi’s visit, countries such as Germany sent high-level delegations to the island and fueled the escalation of tensions.
China considers the island of Taiwan as part of its territory and considers actions such as Pelosi’s visit to be a violation of the “One China” policy.
