China on Sunday responded angrily to US congratulations to the winner of Taiwan’s presidential election. China critic Lai Ching-te won. Beijing calls the US greetings “a serious wrong signal”.
Lai’s victory is a huge disappointment for China. The leader of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) criticizes China’s intervention in Taiwan.
With Lai as the new president, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ambitions are fading further. Xi wants Taiwan to remain fully within the People’s Republic of China’s sphere of influence. But Taiwan wants to retain autonomy.
America also values everything as it is. Only if we continue to have access to the high quality technology that Taiwan manufactures.
De relatie tussen China en Taiwan
- Taiwan is een eiland ten zuidoosten van het Chinese vasteland. In omvang is het iets kleiner dan Nederland. De Chinese Communistische Partij ziet Taiwan als een afvallige regio.
- De huidige verhoudingen zijn het gevolg van een burgeroorlog tussen de communisten en de nationalisten in de twintigste eeuw op het Chinese vasteland. De communisten wonnen die oorlog waardoor de nationalisten zich terugtrokken op het eiland dat nu Taiwan heet.
- Na de oorlog groeide op het vasteland van China de Communistische Partij uit tot de alleenheersende partij zoals we die nu kennen. De mensen in Taiwan ontwikkelden een manier van zelfbestuur met een eigen leger, munteenheid en vrije verkiezingen.
- De Chinese president Xi Jinping heeft gezegd dat Taiwan op een dag weer bij China zal horen en dat daarbij indien nodig geweld wordt gebruikt.
Congratulations ‘send a seriously wrong signal’
The US won’t say it’s happy with the Taiwan election results because it doesn’t want to offend China. And yet it happened on the news at X.
“We congratulate Lai Tsing-tae on his victory in the presidential election in Taiwan,” US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken wrote on Saturday evening.
“We congratulate the people of Taiwan for participating in free and fair elections and demonstrating the strength of their democratic system,” Blinken continued.
In A statement China calls the US response a “serious violation of the One China policy”. It “sends a seriously wrong message.”
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Under the “One China Policy”, the United States recognizes the People’s Republic of China and does not recognize Taiwan as ‘One China’. This is why, for example, the United States does not have a formal diplomatic representation in Taiwan. Yet it actually has an embassy in Taipei. It is called the American Institute.
On Sunday, the agency announced that US President Joe Biden had sent a delegation to Taiwan for an unofficial visit. It involves a former Defense Adviser and a former Deputy Secretary of State.
They are officially traveling in private because a visit to Taiwan is politically sensitive. The US agency said the delegation would meet with “a series of political figures” starting Monday. Previous visits by US (former) politicians have consistently provoked strong Chinese reactions.
0:46Taiwanese President Lai Tsing-tae’s election victory is being celebrated enthusiastically
Taiwan calls on China to end repression
Meanwhile, Taiwan’s foreign ministry called on Beijing to “face the truth”. The ministry wants the People’s Republic of China to “stop oppressing Taiwan” after China’s main ruling party, the DPP, won.
Lai says he has no intention of declaring Taiwan independence. He said in his victory speech that he wants to cooperate with China on the economic front. Despite all the tensions, it is still Taiwan’s largest trading partner. Lai also said he wanted peace and stability to continue, though vowed that Taiwan would “no longer be intimidated by Chinese bellicosity” under his leadership.
Most of the world recognizes the People’s Republic of China as ‘One China’, but at the same time they have unofficial relations with Taiwan.
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