President Joe Biden’s attempt to rally democratic powers in the Indo-Pacific raises the possibility of “a cold war or hot war,” according to a senior Chinese diplomat who bristled at rebukes from the United States and its allies.
“The Asia-Pacific region is a promising land for peace and development. It should not be turned into a boxing ring for major power rivalry, still less a battlefield of a cold war or hot war,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said Monday. “Attempts to stoke a new cold war in the region will be met by firm rejection of regional countries and peoples.
Taiwan, the last bastion of the Republic of China nationalist forces defeated by the communists in the Chinese civil war, has developed into an island democracy and a high-tech manufacturing superpower, which Beijing claims as its sovereign territory even though the Chinese Communist Party has never ruled in Taipei. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen unveiled a record-setting defense budget increase on Monday as the U.S.
China’s diplomatic protests fell on deaf ears in Seoul, where South Korean officials, who have taken a security-minded approach to managing relations with its larger neighbor, brushed off Beijing’s protests by reproaching the power for its truculent claim to sovereignty over an island near the Philippine archipelago.
Wang leaned into the dispute, saying that the Chinese coast guard’s hostile treatment of the Philippine coast guard ship, which was tasked with delivering supplies to Philippine troops in the Spratly Islands, was “legitimate, lawful and beyond reproach.” China has claimed sovereignty over those islands, along with most of the rest of the South China Sea, without regard for the territorial claims of the Philippines and other countries whose shores touch those waterways.
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