WASHINGTON: Nomination of President Joe Biden for the Beijing Ambassador on Wednesday was nicknamed an aggressive and unbelievable Chinese, insisting that increasing Taiwan’s defense against the threat of Chinese invasion must be a US priority.
Speaking to the US Senate Committee on foreign relations, who will confirm his appointment, Nicholas Burns condemned the attack of Chinese aircraft recently into Taiwan’s air defense zone, called them “especially unpleasant ones.” “We certainly can’t trust Chinese people” about Taiwan’s problems, Burns said.
“Our responsibility is to make Taiwan hard beans to crack.” Since 1979, the United States has recognized the People’s Republic of China, but the US Congress simultaneously requires Washington to provide Taiwan with self-defense.
The island has its own government since the Takeover of Communist China in 1949, but Beijing considered Taiwan part of his area to assimilate one day, forcefully if necessary.
Chinese President Xi Jinging recently urged “peaceful reunification.” Burns – A career diplomat who has worked in a number of US administration, both under the Democrats and the Republic – did not arouse words Wednesday.
He accused the Chinese government to become “an aggressor against India along their long Himalayan borders, against Vietnam, the Philippines and others in the South China Sea, against Japan, in the East China Sea.” “Beijing has launched an intimidation campaign against Australia, and even more recently Lithuania.” The PRC genocide in Xinjiang, his violations in Tibet, the freezing of autonomy and Hong Kong’s freedom and Taiwan’s intimidation was unfair and had to stop, “he continued.
But burns emphasize that China’s strength should not be too high:” They have very few friends.
They don’t have a real ally.
“” We should not exaggerate their strength or underestimate the strength of the United States, “he told the Committee.” What we need is the confidence that the United States is a strong country.
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