Chinese Defense Minister’s message to US counterpart: Taiwan is a part of China.
“Taiwan is part of China and no one can change it,” the Chinese defense minister said in a telephone call with his US counterpart.
China’s defense minister said in a phone call with his US counterpart that Taiwan is part of China.
“Taiwan is part of China and no one can take it,” Chinese Defense Minister Wei Feng told a rare phone call with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Wednesday afternoon, according to Reuters. “Change.”
“If the Taiwan issue is not properly addressed, it will have a devastating effect on Sino-US relations,” the Chinese defense minister told his US counterpart.
According to a senior Pentagon official, Austin said in a telephone call Wednesday with the Chinese defense minister that US President Joe Biden had sent messages about the importance of managing US-China strategic competition, including in the nuclear and space fields. And cyber repeated.
Beijing considers Taiwan a part of China, and considers US moves and arms sales to Taiwan a violation of its sovereignty and contrary to the “one China” policy. The US government recently signed a hundreds of billions of dollars in military budget bill, a significant portion of which is dedicated to countering China and supporting Taiwan.
The recent visit of a non-partisan delegation of US lawmakers to Taiwan, led by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez, also drew sharp reactions from Beijing, with the Chinese military announcing that it was conducting military exercises around Taiwan. A spokesman for the Chinese military’s Eastern Wing Command said in a statement that the exercises were due to erroneous messages sent by the United States about Taiwan.
