The United States warns China that it will do everything possible not to annex Taiwan

The government of USA warned this Tuesday to China that it will take all possible actions, both dissuasive and diplomatic, to ensure that the Asian nation does not annex Taiwan by force.

This was pointed out by the White House national security adviser, Jake Sullivan at a press conference, in response to a question about whether the US is prepared to deal with a situation in which China uses force for a unification with Taiwan and Russia invade Ukraine at the same time.

“USA. it will take all possible actions, both dissuasive and diplomatic, to ensure that the Taiwan scenario you have described never occurs, and to try to prevent and deter the invasion of Ukraine, “Sullivan said.

In that sense, he stressed that “the sum total of the efforts” that Washington has undertaken in the last eight months in the Indo-Pacific region are aimed at avoiding “any situation” towards which China chooses to go with respect to Taiwan.

The national security adviser spoke these words after a virtual summit of almost two hours between the president of the United States, Joe Biden, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, before the Russian military escalation on the border with Ukraine.

Taiwan has been governed autonomously since 1949, when the communists defeated the nationalists in the civil war and the latter retreated to the island, continuing with a dictatorial regime until the culmination of the transition to democracy in the 1990s.

Throughout this time, the island has maintained the name of the Republic of China and the symbolism under which the Chinese nationalists also governed the territory of the current People’s Republic before its defeat in the civil war, although with democracy voices arose that bet for breaking with that past and formally declaring independence under the name of Taiwan.

In 1979, Washington broke its official diplomatic relations with Taipei in favor of Beijing, although it continued to maintain ties with Taiwan through its ‘de facto’ embassy on the island, called the American Institute in Taiwan.

In fact, that same year the United States approved the so-called Taiwan Relations Act, which establishes that Washington will help Taipei in defense matters.

In mid-November, Biden had a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, in which he reiterated the US commitment to the “one China” policy, although he specified that it will also be guided by the United States Relations Law. Taiwan

This issue has generated numerous frictions between the two powers, to which must be added the recent Chinese military maneuvers near the island or Washington’s support for a “robust” participation of Taiwan in international organizations.

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