China’s increasingly provocative rhetoric and actions against Taiwan are “deeply destabilizing,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a key China policy speech on Thursday.
“Beijing is engaged in increasingly provocative rhetoric and activity, like flying PLA [Chinese People’s Liberation Army] aircraft near Taiwan on an almost daily basis,” Blinken said in the 45-minute speech at George Washington University in Washington, during which he outlined the US administration’s policy toward China.
“These words and actions are deeply destabilizing,” and “risk miscalculation and threaten the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait,” he said.
Blinken said that the US would manage its
Taipei, Feb. 26 (CNA) Taiwan's opposition parties denounced Russian aggression after the Kremlin launched military operations in Ukraine on Thursday, while underlining the need for Taiwan to strengthen its defense capability.
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday accused the government of launching a “surprise attack” in defiance of public opinion by lifting a ban on food imports from five Japanese prefectureds without consulting opposition parties or the public.
At a news conference at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei, KMT caucus whip William Tseng (曾銘宗) called on people to use their votes this year to oppose the “tyrannical, arrogant and detestable” administration.
With its decision to allow food imports from the prefectures, after they were banned following the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant in 2011, the administration is “trampling on the will
JAPANESE FOOD: KMT Chairman Eric Chu said that the Democratic Progressive Party would ‘pay the price’ for defying public opinion and ignoring public healthBy Chen Yun, Yang Chun-hui and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporters, with staff writer and CNA
The US House of Representatives on Friday narrowly passed a multibillion-dollar bill aimed at increasing US competitiveness with China and boosting domestic semiconductor manufacturing, despite Republican opposition.
The Democratic-majority House backed the “America COMPETES Act of 2022” by 222 to 210, almost entirely along party lines.
One Republican joined Democrats in voting for the measure, and one Democrat voted against.
The vote took place hours after the opening ceremony for the Beijing Winter Olympics, amid criticism in the US Congress of the International Olympic Committee for awarding the Games to China.
Human rights groups have long criticized China’s rights record, allegations China