In the midst of the degradation of the links between China and the United States, Beijing has accused Washington of a “serious danger to sino-us relations.
Washington has chosen well his time. The United States was preparing to send soon in Taiwan their delegation the most prominent since they were discontinued in 1979 to recognize diplomatically the island. The announcement in the us has immediately caused Wednesday the wrath of Beijing.
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In the midst of degradation almost daily of the ties between China and the United States, Beijing has accused Washington of a “serious danger to sino-us relations as well as peace and stability in the Taiwan strait”, which separates the two States rivals.
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Meeting with the chairperson Tsai Ing-wen
The representation of american in Taiwan has confirmed that the u.s. secretary of Health, Alex Azar, would take the head of the delegation who will visit the island on a date which has not been specified. “This brand (…) the first visit of a member of the government in six years,” said the american Institute in Taiwan, adding that no minister of such a rank had made “since 1979”.
This is the year that the United States had broken their diplomatic relations with Taipei, the capital of the island, in order to recognize the communist government based in Beijing as the sole representative of China. They remain, however, with a certain ambiguity, an ally to the most powerful of the island territory and its main arms supplier.
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Taiwan has confirmed the next visit, to the effect that Alex Azar would encounter on this occasion the chairperson Tsai Ing-wen, the black beast of Beijing, which accuses him of seeking formal independence for the island of 23 million people.
Trump approached Taiwan
The visit “and a new testimony of the strong partnership between Taiwan and the United States which is based on our longstanding friendship and common values”, said the president on Twitter. In spite of the bilateral ties, the United States traditionally have been cautious in the nature of official contacts with Taipei.
This has changed with Donald Trump, who was close to Taiwan as relations deteriorated with Beijing on a number of subjects. The success of the island against the Covid-19 and its affirmation as one of the democracies the most progressive Asia have also earned broad support on the political chessboard american.
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Shortly after his election, Donald Trump had become the first u.s. president to speak with a counterpart from taiwan since 1979, when Tsai Ing-wen had called to congratulate him. The administration Trump has multiplied the sales of military equipment, sophisticated on the island, including the one last summer, the last of the hunters. The last visit to Taiwan of a member of the american government had been that in 2014 the head of the Agency of protection of the environment. The previous one dated back to 2000, when the secretary of Transportation Bill Clinton had visited on the island.
Visit presented as linked to the coronavirus
In their press releases, Washington and Taipei have the visit of Alex Azar as related to the pandemic, while Beijing has obtained to exclude Taiwan from the world Health Organization (WHO). In spite of its geographical proximity and trade with the mainland of which is part of the epidemic, Taiwan has registered less than 500 cases of the coronavirus and only seven deaths.
“Taiwan has been a model of transparency and cooperation in the area of health during the pandemic Covid-19, and well before that,” said Alex Azar. But the epidemic is not by any means an exception in the eyes of Beijing.
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“China is firmly opposed to official contacts between the United States and Taiwan”, recalled to the press the spokesman of the chinese ministry of foreign Affairs, Wang Wenbin, stating that Beijing had issued a protest to the administration Trump.
