After the inauguration of the U.S. administration, Joe Biden, the first head of diplomatic relations between the United States and China, held a thorny battle. After the emergence of the Biden government, the incidents are colliding. It is a’flag fight’ that China refutes when the US pressures it.
US Secretary of State Tony Blincoln spoke on the 5th (US time) with Yang Jietsu, a political officer in charge of Chinese diplomacy. This is the first call between the heads of diplomacy after the new US government. Sensitive issues between the two countries, such as Taiwan, Hong Kong and Xinjiang, were all discussed.
After the currency, the governments of both countries mainly introduced their own speech. According to the US State Department, Secretary Blincoln reaffirmed his position to work with allies and partners to hold accountability against China, which threatens stability in the Indo-Pacific region, including the Taiwan Strait, and ignores a rule-based international social system.
It did not avoid the long-standing issue of human rights. “The Secretary of State Blincoln emphasized that the United States will continue to support human rights and democratic values in Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong, while pressing China to join the international community criticizing the military coup in Burma (Myanmar),” the State Department said.
Reports on the Chinese side are centered on both political members. According to the Central (CC) TV, both political members said that the Taiwan issue is a key issue in China-US relations, where China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity is at stake. “We must strictly comply with the agreement between the two countries on the reduction of Taiwan’s arms exports, etc.”
In addition, he warned that “the issues such as Hong Kong, Xinjiang, and Shijang (西藏, Tibet) are Chinese internal affairs, so we do not tolerate any interference from outside forces.” “China will firmly defend the national sovereignty, safety and development interests.”
The confrontation angle is not new. At the Senate approval hearing, Minister Blincoln said that he would inherit the Donald Trump administration’s hard-line principle on the public. Violation of the (prohibited line) will damage the interests of the two countries.”
Neurological warfare also took place over the navigation of US Navy warships in the South China Sea. The 7th Fleet of the United States said on its homepage that day, “It carried out the’Freedom of Navigation’ operation in the South China Sea. John McCain exercised his right to freedom of navigation in the vicinity of the Paracel Islands (Vietnamese Hoangsa and Chinese Sisa Islands) in accordance with international law. I also uploaded a picture of the navigation. “Illegal and widespread claim of sovereignty over the South China Sea poses a serious threat to the freedom of navigation, airspace and free trade of coastal countries,” he said.
These US measures are very stimulating. “The McCain trespassed into the Chinese territorial waters of the Paracel Islands without permission from the Chinese government, and troops in the southern front were tracked, monitored, warned, and expelled.” From AFP news agency reported that it is the first time that China has disclosed that it has evicted US warships sailing after President Biden took office.
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