United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin urged China to avoid “destabilizing actions” toward Taiwan in his first face-to-face meeting with Defense Minister Wei Fenghe since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei in August.
UNITED STATES Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin urged China to avoid “destabilizing actions” toward Taiwan in his first face-to-face meeting with Defense Minister Wei Fenghe since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei in August.
“The responsibility of the current state of affairs of China-US relations does not lie with China—the main reason is that the US has made the wrong strategic judgment,” Defense Ministry Spokesman Tan Kefei told reporters in Cambodia. He said the US should “adopt a rational and practical China policy so as to really remove the root causes of crisis.”
Beijing also continues to lay claim to a large swath of the South China Sea, staking out a position contested by nations from Vietnam to the Philippines. China has responded by accusing the US of having a Cold War approach to the world. Asked about Harris’s visit to the Philippines, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said ties between Washington and Manila shouldn’t “harm any other country’s interests.”
While Biden administration officials insist US policy toward Taiwan is unchanged, they’ve accused Beijing of altering the status quo with its more frequent military maneuvers and exercises around the island. Ahead of the meeting with Austin, Wei condemned American moves to sell arms to Taiwan, which it considers part of its territory.
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