China condemns the transit of the Taiwanese vice president in the US and threatens to respond

China condemned this Sunday the stops he will make in USA the vice president of taiwanWilliam Lai, during his trip to Paraguay, and warned that it will take “forceful measures to safeguard its sovereignty and territorial integrity”.

Lai will make a stopover in NY before arriving in Paraguay – one of the 13 countries that maintain official ties with Taiwan – to attend the inauguration of Santiago Peña as president, and will later make a stop in San Francisco on the way back from the trip.

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China strongly opposes any form of official contact between the United States and taiwanand opposes “Taiwanese separatists” traveling to USA under any pretext. China expresses its condemnation and strong discontent at Washington’s insistence that Lai make that stop.”The Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

According to Beijing, Lai is “looking for trouble” with his transits in USAwhom he qualifies as “an excuse to participate in political activities”.

“This violates the ‘One China’ principle and seriously damages China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. The facts prove once again that the cause of the tensions in the Taiwan Strait is the insistence of the Taiwanese authorities to have USA to seek ‘independence’ as well as Washington’s to ‘use Taiwan to contain China’”add the note.

The Chinese portfolio urges USA to finish “any kind of official contact with Taiwan” given that “stop supporting any Taiwanese separatist forces”.

“China It is monitoring the situation closely and will take strong measures to safeguard its sovereignty and territorial integrity.”concludes Beijing.

In April, China held three days of military exercises after Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen met with US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California after returning from a trip to Guatemala and Belize.

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For its part, Taipei has tried to play down the importance of Lai’s stoppage, noting that it has happened before, and has asked Beijing not to “overreact”.

According to the Taiwanese government, it is possible that China hold maneuvers near Taiwan next week “using the stopover as a pretext to intimidate voters ahead of next year’s elections.”

Tensions between Taipei and Beijing, constant since Tsai came to power in 2016, escalated last summer due to the visit of the then Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, strongly protested by the Chinese authorities, who They described it as a “farce” and “deplorable betrayal.”

Chinese military planes have constantly crossed the median of the Taiwan Strait since that trip, which angered Beijing.

China It claims sovereignty over Taiwan, a territory it considers a “rebel province” since Kuomintang nationalists withdrew there in 1949 after losing the war against the communist army.

The self-governing island is one of the main reasons for friction between China and USAsince the North American country is the main supplier of arms to Taiwan and would defend it in case of conflict.

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Source: Elcomercio

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