Xi told Biden that Taiwan is the most “dangerous” aspect of the bilateral relationship

The president of China, Xi Jinpingtold his counterpart this Wednesday U.S, Joe Bidenwhat Taiwan It is the most “dangerous” of the bilateral relationship, as detailed by a senior US official to a small group of journalists.

According to that source, there was an exchange “substantial” about Taiwan during the meeting, which lasted more than four hours and in which Biden reiterated to Xi that washington will never support a unilateral change of “status quo”with a declaration of independence from Taipei.

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Furthermore, according to this source, Biden took the opportunity to ask Xi to respect the independence of the January presidential elections in Taiwan and not tip the scales in favor of the conservative party candidate. Kuomintang, Hou Yu-ihcloser Beijing.

In these elections, the Taiwanese vice-president starts as the favorite William Laiwhich belongs to Democratic Progressive Partythe political strength of the current president, Tsai Ing-wenunder which relations with Beijing were further strained.

In turn, Xi also took advantage of the meeting to make clear his position China in Taiwan, which it claims as part of its territory.

Specifically, a spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hua Chunyingsaid on social network X (formerly known as Twitter) that Xi had noted during the meeting that Taiwan remains the problem.”most important and sensitive”in relations between China and U.S.

What is more, Xi Jinping urged Joe Biden Taking “real actions“to honor his commitment not to support Taiwan’s independence, he demanded that he stop sending weapons to the island and support”peaceful reunification” from China.

“China will achieve reunification and this is inevitable”Xi emphasized during the meeting, according to the official Chinese news agency Xinhua.

Taiwan, the autonomous island with a democratic system that China claims as part of its territory and to which Washington sends a large quantity of weapons, is the main source of tensions between the two powers.

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Biden has reaffirmed on several occasions that he respects the principle of “a porcelain” that Beijing imposes as the basis of its ties with any country and this means that the only Chinese government that Washington can recognize is the one based in Beijing, which distances it from Taiwan’s independence aspirations.

However, in exchange for complying with this principle and severing diplomatic ties with Taipei almost half a century ago, Washington signed the Taiwan Relations Law of 1979, which commits the country to the defense of the island, although it does not make clear whether the power would intervene in the event of a Chinese attack in a policy known as “strategic ambiguity”.

Taiwan – where the Chinese nationalist army retreated after its defeat at the hands of communist troops in the civil war (1927-1949) – has been governed autonomously since the end of the war, although China claims sovereignty over the island it considers a rebel territory. province for whom “reunification”did not rule out the use of force.

Source: Elcomercio

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