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China toughens its language toward Taiwan, warns independence means war
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China toughened its language towards Taiwan on Thursday, warning after recent stepped up military activities near the island that “independence means war” and that its armed forces were acting in response to provocation and foreign interference.
Taiwan, claimed by China as its own territory, reported multiple Chinese fighter jets and bombers entering its southwestern air defence identification zone last weekend, prompting Washington to urge Beijing to stop pressuring Taiwan.
China believes that Taiwan’s democratically-elected government is moving the island towards a declaration of formal independence, though Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has repeatedly said it is already an independent country called the Republic of China, its formal name.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon reaffirmed its longstanding support to Taiwan’s self-defense on Thursday and said there was no reason that tensions between China and Taiwan “need to lead to anything like confrontation.”
The remarks by Pentagon spokesman John Kirby were the first by President Joe Biden’s military about China-Taiwan tensions since he took office last week. They followed remarks by China’s defense ministry earlier on Thursday that independence for Taiwan “means war.”
China claims Taiwan as its own territory and believes that Taiwan’s democratically elected government is moving the island toward a declaration of formal independence, though Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has repeatedly said it is already an independent country called the Republic of China, its formal name.
His reference to a “growing rivalry from China and Russia and other authoritarian states” echoed the themes laid out in the Trump administration’s National Security Strategy, National Defense Strategy and Indo-Pacific Strategy Statement.
In their hearings, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines also painted broad policy strokes that suggest significant continuity between the Trump and Biden administrations on national security matters. Both promised to devote greater attention to China as a growing “adversary.”
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Austin: “China is the pacing threat for the United States. The Indo-Pacific must be the focus of the department.”
Haines: “China is a challenge to our security, to our prosperity, to our values across a range of issues, and I do support an aggressive stance . . . one that is more assertive than where we had been in the Obama-Biden administration.”
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