Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-California) visit to Taiwan on August 2 was “arrogant towards other countries and its own international obligations,” in reference to China’s illegal territorial claims on the sovereign island. described it as a show of disrespect. . Taiwan Province, according to the official website of the Russian government.
Speaking in a video message to the participants and guests of the Tenth Moscow Conference on International Security on August 16, Putin reportedly said:
[T]Recently, the US has made another deliberate attempt to inflame and cause trouble in the Asia-Pacific region. The US flight to Taiwan is not only the idea of an irresponsible politician, but also part of a deliberate and deliberate US strategy designed to destabilize the situation and sow chaos in the region and the world. This is an arrogant display of disrespect for other countries and their own international obligations. We see this as a carefully planned provocation.
Russia and China share the world’s sixth-largest international border. Moscow and Beijing maintain official diplomatic relations with each other and have grown closer in recent months after Russia’s decision to launch its final war in neighboring Ukraine in February. 24, but China in particular refused to support the invasion of Ukraine. Before a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Putin said the country “has no tradition” of sovereignty and should be part of Russia. Beijing emphasized Ukraine’s sovereignty in its statements on the subject.
“Taiwan is definitely not Ukraine,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said in February. “Taiwan has always been an important part of Chinese territory. This is an indisputable historical and legal fact.”
In response to the war, the US government imposed a series of financial sanctions on Russian companies and organizations and successfully urged its political allies to do the same. The ongoing financial sanctions campaign began on 24 February. This prompted Moscow to abandon traditional commercial and political expectations in the West and to move in favor of Eastern alternatives, especially represented by China and India.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Bali, Indonesia, on July 7.
“Wang, say it again[ed] He said China required an “objective and impartial” stance against Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, and also affirmed the deepening of bilateral cooperation with Russia, according to the website of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission. USA .. government.
When Pelosi arrived in the capital, Taipei, on August 2, she became the highest-ranking US government official to visit Taiwan in 25 years. President Tsai Ing-wen. 3 august.
During the joint press event, Pelosi referred to the “one China policy” and said:
Forty years ago, the Taiwan Relations Act was passed to establish strong ties between the two countries, adhering to the “One China” policy, to support our common interests in governance, economy and security. As you defend Taiwan and its freedom, our solidarity with you is more important than ever.
Pelosi referred to Washington’s “one China policy”, which is the US government’s interpretation of the Chinese Communist Party’s “one China principle”. Beijing’s “One China Principle” states that the Communist Party of China is “the only legitimate government representing all the people of the People’s Republic of China”. Beijing regards Taiwan as part of China, thus preventing any foreign government that has official diplomatic relations with China from doing so with Taipei. The US government maintains official diplomatic relations with China’s central government as part of the “One China Policy”, which states that only one country in the world is named “China” but Taiwan is not necessarily a part of it.
“The United States has followed a longstanding one-China policy, guided by the Taiwan Relations Act, the three US-China joint statements, and the Six Assurances. We are against any unilateral change in the status quo from both sides; We do not support Taiwan’s independence; We expect the differences between the straits to be resolved peacefully,” said the US State Department briefing, published on May 28.
Beijing increasingly threatens Taiwan’s “reunification” with “mainland” China, that is, China, as the island nation is located on the southeast coast of China. The Chinese Communist Party responded to Pelosi’s symbolic visit to Taiwan in early August by launching several days of live fire military exercises in the airspace and waters immediately surrounding Taiwan, separated from China by the Taiwan Strait. The Taiwan Strait is only 86 nautical miles wide at its narrowest point, “Key West and [Florida] and Cuba. forbes seen in June.
Source: Breitbart
