China-Taiwan news: White House calls Chinese drills ‘provocative’ and
China’s military drills ‘provocative’ and ‘irresponsible’, US says
A White House spokesperson has said China is trying to “change the status quo” through its military drills around Taiwan.
These activities are a significant escalation in China’s efforts to change the status quo. They are provocative, irresponsible, and raise the risk of miscalculation,” the spokesperson said.
They are also at odds with our longstanding goal of maintaining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait, which is what the world expects.”
China’s defence ministry said it had carried out military exercises as planned in the sea and airspaces to the north, south-west, and east of Taiwan, with a focus on “testing the capabilities” of its land strike and sea assault systems.
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US deputy secretary of state Wendy Sherman said a new crop of world leaders are reviving “bankrupt” ideas about the use of force, according to a recent report from Agence France-Presse.
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Visiting a battlefield memorial in the Solomon Islands, Sherman said “some around the world” had forgotten the cost of war, or were ignoring the lessons of the past.
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She hit out at “leaders who believe that coercion, pressure, and violence are tools to be used with impunity”, without citing any leader by name.
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Painting the situation today as carrying faint echoes of the fight against Nazism and Imperial Japan in the 1930-40s, Sherman urged the region to push back.
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We remember how bankrupt, how empty, such views were then, and remain today,” she said.
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Today we are once again engaged in a different kind of struggle – a struggle that will go on for some time to come.”
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Sherman told her hosts “it is up to us to decide if we want to continue having societies where people are free to speak their minds.”
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It is time, she said, to decide “if we want to have governments that are transparent and accountable to their people.”
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China appears set to wrap up its largest-ever military exercises surrounding Taiwan later today.
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It has deployed fighter jets, warships and ballistic missiles around Taiwan in what analysts have described as practising a blockade and ultimate invasion of the island.
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Those exercises are set to wrap up Sunday, though Beijing has announced fresh drills in the Yellow Sea – located between China and the Korean peninsula – to take place until 15 August.
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According to some unconfirmed reports, China has lifted its no-go notices for drill areas.
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