Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
WASHINGTON DC, 29th Jan. Taiwan’s Defence Ministry on Sunday has said that China deployed 33 aircraft, including SU-30 fighters and 6 navy vessels, around Taiwan between 6 am on Friday to 6 am on Saturday.
According to various news reports, China sent 33 aircraft, 13 warplanes crossed the Taiwan Strait, an unofficial boundary between Taiwan and China.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday stressed that “Taiwan’s independence” poses the biggest risk to China-US ties
Chinese Foreign Minister met United States National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in Bangkok on Saturday, more than two months after US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping met on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco.
They “had candid, substantive, and fruitful strategic communication on implementing the consensus reached at the San Francisco meeting and on properly handling important and sensitive issues in China-US relations,” China’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
White House said that the meeting between the officials was “part of the effort to maintain open lines of communication” between the two countries.
It added that “Sullivan stressed that although the United States and China are in competition both countries need to prevent it from veering into conflict or confrontation.”
Beijing and Washington have clashed on issues related to technology, trade, human rights, and Taiwan, which China claims as its territory.
The recent Taiwanese election saw the Democratic Progressive Party secure a third term. The DPP is resistant to China’s claim over Taiwan.
US lawmakers met Taiwan’s new leader, Lai Ching-te, to reaffirm Washington’s support for the self-governing island.
The second group to arrive in Taiwan since the election after Biden sent an unofficial delegation to congratulate Lai two days after the vote.
China’s foreign ministry, Wang stressed in the meeting with Sullivan that Taiwan was “China’s internal affair, and the regional election in Taiwan cannot change the basic reality that Taiwan is part of China.”
“The biggest risk to peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait is the so-called ‘Taiwan independence’ movement. The biggest challenge to China-US relations is also the ‘Taiwan independence’ movement,” it added.
