The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) yesterday slammed China’s threat to use force to annex Taiwan, saying that it was disrupting peace in the Taiwan Strait and the region.
China’s Taiwan Affairs Office earlier yesterday issued a white paper laying out how it intends to claim Taiwan through a range of economic incentives and military pressure.
“We are ready to create vast space for peaceful reunification, but we will leave no room for separatist activities in any form,” said the paper, the first it has issued on Taiwan since 2000.
China will “not renounce the use of force, and we reserve the option of
By Jonathan Chin / Staff writer, with AFP and BloombergThe Mainland Affairs Council （MAC） yesterday slammed China’s threat to use force to annex Taiwan, saying that it was disrupting peace in the Taiwan Strait and the region.
The US on Monday said that it would step up cooperation with Vietnam and Taiwan among others to combat illegal fishing, a problem that environmentalists and Western nations increasingly attribute to China.
As a major UN conference opened in Portugal on restoring the planet’s ailing oceans, US President Joe Biden signed a memorandum that aimed to step up coordination and enforcement within the US government against illegal fishing and the use of forced labor.
The White House said the US also plans new engagement with Ecuador, Panama, Senegal, Taiwan and Vietnam on fighting illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
An administration official said,
/ AFP, WASHINGTONThe US on Monday said that it would step up cooperation with Vietnam and Taiwan among others to combat illegal fishing, a problem that environmentalists and Western nations increasingly attribute to China.
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