EXCLUSIVE: The latest American congressional visit to Taiwan had Beijing fuming, a letter shared exclusively with The Daily Beast shows.
last year, China kicked off protest military drills, bringing both Washington-Beijing and cross-strait relations to a striking low.
. And U.S. intelligence officials have begun to warn in recent months that a potential invasion appears closer than ever before. “The one-China principle is part of the postwar international order and has become a general international consensus, the essence of which is that there is only one China in the world, the Taiwan region is an inalienable part of China’s territory, the Government of the People’s Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China,” the letter states.They’re angry. I don’t care.
“They’re angry. I don’t care. We’re going to stand with freedom and democracy wherever it is in the world, in Ukraine, in Taiwan, and on the streets of Tehran,” said Auchincloss, a member of Congress’ newly minted Select Committee on Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party . “We can’t flinch just because the CCP is angry.”
The visit seems to have exacerbated some of Beijing’s sensitivities to America’s interest in providing military aid to Taiwan, just asto expand a military training program with the island in an attempt to help Taiwan repel a potential invasion. But Taiwan’s ruling party, the DPP, has been touchy over the policy on keeping Taiwan independent from China recently. Earlier this month,, visited mainland China to discuss relations with Beijing. During the visit, Chinese officials urged him to push for an acceptance of China’s view of the “One China” principle and oppose Taiwan’s independence.
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