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As US-China relations thaw under Biden, Beijing warns, ‘don’t play Taiwan card’ : Rashtra News
Amid a surge in Chinese military exercises and warplane missions near Taiwan, Beijing has warned that it will not look favourably upon any country that seeks to play the “Taiwan card” to undermine China’s sovereignty.
“Some people in the United States breach the one-China commitment and keep stepping on the red line, playing the ‘Taiwan card’. The one-China principle is the cornerstone of the establishment and development of our diplomatic ties. Any attempt to contain China by using the Taiwan question will end up in failure,” Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng said in an interview with state broadcaster CGTN.
Even as China called out the United States on the issue of Taiwan, relations between the two countries are beginning to thaw under the Biden administration, which is making overtures to rebuild channels of communications as opposed to the Trump regime’s bellicose stance.
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For instance, Le Yucheng said a group has been set up to discuss disputes with Washington ahead of a video summit between President Xi Jinping and his American counterpart Joe Biden.
“Dialogue and cooperation are indispensable and confrontation and conflict will lead us nowhere,” he said, adding that the group has already “made some progress”.
ON US-CHINA TRADE
Le Yucheng said economic cooperation and trade are vital to the mutual interests of China and the United States, and any setback would be fundamentally harmful. He cited the trade war between the two countries which broke out under the Trump administration, saying it had hit the US economy hard.
“We hope the US government will truly change its course and work with the business community to turn economic cooperation and trade into an ‘ice-breaker’ in China-US relations,” he said.
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ON AUKUS
China’s Vice Foreign Minister noted that the newfound three-way security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States poses grave risks to regional peace and may cause a nuclear disaster.
“First of all, it triggers the risks of nuclear proliferation, seriously violates the spirit of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and brings harm to the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty. At the same time, AUKUS aims to seek maritime hegemony. It stokes arms race in the region,” he said.
Dismissing the claim that AUKUS came into being to counter China’s growing military presence, especially in the South China Sea, Le Yucheng said, “On one hand, the US and the US use sanctions to deter other countries from developing uranium enrichment technology. But on the other hand, they blatantly equip Australia with nuclear-powered submarines. They dished out ‘China assertiveness’ as an excuse, but it cannot cover their double standard.”
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ON A NEW COLD WAR
“President Joe Biden said that the US is not seeking a new Cold War or a divided world. But at the same time the United States has moved to piece together AUKUS, upgrade the Quad and enhance the Five Eyes. This is nothing but the same old Cold War approach,” noted Le Yucheng.
He further alleged that the US was building small blocs and playing zero-sum games in geopolitics.
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