Taiwan

Wei Fenghe says ties are at critical juncture and puts onus on United States to improve bilateral relationship.

“No country should impose its will on others or bully others under the guise of multilateralism,” Wei said. “We request the US side to stop smearing and containing China. Stop interfering in China’s internal affairs. During his address, Austin also said he wants “lines of communication” with Chinese officials to remain open. No one should ever underestimate the resolve and ability of the Chinese armed forces to safeguard its territorial integrity.” “As for China’s harassment of Taiwan with military aircraft, warships, unreasonable suppression and political actions, the one being most unreasonable is China,” he added. This is the only choice for China,” Wei Fenghe told the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore, where he called Taiwan “first and foremost China’s Taiwan”.

China's defense minister has accused the U.S. of "smearing" Beijing and says Washington is trying to "hijack" countries in the Indo-Pacific region.

"It is a strategy to create conflict and confrontation to contain and encircle others," he said. China will fight any attempts by Taiwan to declare independence to the "last man," he said. He called the Indo-Pacific strategy released in February central to the Biden Administration's forthcoming National Security Strategy and to his own department's National Defense Strategy. "Those who pursue Taiwanese independence in an attempt to split China will definitely come to no good end." "It is a partnership, not an alliance. "We request the U.S. side to stop smearing and containing China. Stop interfering in China's internal affairs. Relations with Russia will continue to grow. "However, if you want confrontation, we will fight to the end. The IPEF involves 13 countries and excludes China. "To us, the strategy is an attempt to build an exclusive small group in the name of a free and open Indo-Pacific, to hijack countries in our region and target one specific country," Wei said at the concluding day of the three-day dialogue in Singapore. SINGAPORE — China's defense minister accused the U.S. of "smearing" Beijing and said Washington is trying to "hijack" countries in the Indo-Pacific region. - "To us, the strategy is an attempt to build an exclusive small group in the name of a free and open Indo-Pacific, to hijack countries in our region and target one specific country," he said.

Washington opposes Taiwan independence but will continue to send arms and prevent Chinese coercion, the Defense secretary says.

“We will continue to fulfill our commitments under the Taiwan Relations Act,” Austin said at the Shangri-La Dialogue, a major forum on Asian security. “And that includes assisting Taiwan and maintaining a sufficient self-defense capability. “So our policy hasn’t changed,” he added. Does sovereignty matter? “Do rules matter? In the bilateral meeting, Wei told Austin that the Chinese military “will not hesitate to fight if anyone dares secedes Taiwan” from China, according to a spokesman for the Chinese defense ministry.

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin stressed the US does not support Taiwanese independence but Chinese military activity around the Asian island could ...

"Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is what happens when oppressors trample the rules that protect us all," he said. "It’s what happens when big powers decide that their imperial appetites matter more than the rights of their peaceful neighbors. "We remain focused on maintaining peace, stability and the status quo across the Taiwan Strait," Austin said in his address. The 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, which has governed U.S. relations with the island, does not require the U.S. to step in militarily if China invades, but makes it American policy to ensure Taiwan has the resources to defend itself and to prevent any unilateral change of status by Beijing. "And it means maintaining our own capacity to resist any use of force or other forms of coercion that would jeopardize the security or the social or economic system of the people of Taiwan." Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles told the forum that AUKUS, under which Australia will acquire nuclear-powered submarines from the U.S. with the help of Britain, was a technology-sharing relationship, and "not in the set of arrangements as you would describe NATO." China "firmly opposes and strongly condemns it," and the Chinese government and military will "resolutely smash any Taiwan independence plot and resolutely safeguard the reunification of the motherland," Wei reportedly told Austin. And it’s a preview of a possible world of chaos and turmoil that none of us would want to live in." He drew a parallel with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, saying that the "indefensible assault on a peaceful neighbor has galvanized the world and ... has reminded us all of the dangers of undercutting an international order rooted in rules and respect." Austin said that the "rules-based international order matters just as much in the Indo-Pacific as it does in Europe." "But the PRC’s moves threaten to undermine security, and stability, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific." Speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Austin noted a "steady increase in provocative and destabilizing military activity near Taiwan," including almost daily military flights near the island by the People’s Republic of China.

Earlier on Sunday at a security forum in Singapore, China's defence minister said the Chinese government sought “peaceful reunification” with Taiwan but ...

China has refused to speak to Tsai since she was first elected in 2016, viewing her as a separatist who has refused to accept that China and Taiwan are part of “one China”. “Taiwan does not want to close the door to China. It is China that has used various means to oppress and treat Taiwan unreasonably.” Relations between Taipei and Beijing, which claims democratically ruled Taiwan as its own territory, are at their lowest in decades, with China increasing political and military pressure to get the island to accept its sovereignty.

Relations between Taipei and Beijing, which claims democratically ruled Taiwan as its own territory, are at their lowest in decades, with China increasing ...

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Singapore (CNN) Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe on Sunday accused the United States of being a "bully" and "hijacking" countries around the region, ...

Otherwise, the law of the jungle will prevail," Wei said. And we will fight to the very end." "China will never seek hegemony or engage in military expansion or an arms race. To us, the strategy is an attempt to build an exclusive, small group in the name of a free and open Indo-Pacific, to hijack countries in our region and target one specific country. "China will definitely realize its reunification. We will fight at all costs.