Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi accused the US government of scheduling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan to cause a crisis and increase its military presence in the region.
“The United States tends to create a problem first and then use it to advance its strategic agenda,” Wang Yi said in a statement Sunday. visit, and is now seizing the opportunity to escalate its military presence in the region,” stressing that this “requires vigilance and firm opposition from all parties.”
Wang Yi added that China’s measures to protect its sovereignty are fair, proportionate and lawful. “China’s firm position and the measures it has taken are fair, rational, legal, necessary, open and proportionate. They are aimed at protecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the People’s Republic of China,” the statement said.
He also pointed out that China will not allow the US to rule Taiwan and that it will “shatter the illusions” of the island’s authorities about achieving independence with the support of Washington.
On Thursday, the Chinese military held a massive military exercise, firing missiles in six waters around Taiwan. They were supposed to end at noon on Sunday (07:00 Moscow time), but, according to the Chinese Ministry of Defense, the exercises, which began the day after Pelosi’s visit to Taipei, will last at least another day.
Source: TASS