Chinese President Xi Jinping intends to prevent Taiwanese Vice President Lai Ching-te from “visiting the United States,” according to a top Chinese ambassador, who characterized the trip as a crisis in the making.
“The provocative, adventurist moves by Taiwan’s separatists should be contained,” Ambassador Xie Feng said Wednesday. “And now the priority for us is to stop [Lai Ching-te] from visiting the United States, which is like a gray rhino charging at us.”
“We want to grow together with the United States ... we should say goodbye to the Cold War mentality,” he said. “We should say goodbye to the zero-sum game, and we should avoid a major country conflict.” Beijing has kept a tight lid on information about Qin’s status, even in the days since he missed a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Indonesia earlier this month. Chinese Foreign Ministry officials claimed that he skipped the ASEAN summit “because of health reasons,” and he was replaced by the Chinese Communist Party’s highest-ranking diplomat, Wang Yi.
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