China vowed reprisals against Taiwan Thursday after a meeting between the U.S. House Speaker and the island's President, saying the U.S. was on a 'wrong and dangerous road.'
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning listens to a question during a daily briefing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs office in Beijing, on April 6, 2023. China vowed reprisals against Taiwan Thursday after a meeting between the U.S. House Speaker and the island's President, saying the U.S. was on a "wrong and dangerous road."
In response to the meeting, Beijing said it would take "resolute and forceful measures to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity," in a statement issued early Thursday morning by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.By Thursday afternoon, there was no overt sign of a large-scale military response as of Thursday afternoon as China had done previously.
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense said Wednesday evening it had tracked the China's Shandong aircraft carrier passing through the Bashi Strait, to Taiwan's southeast. On Thursday morning, it tracked three People's Liberation Army navy vessels and one warplane in the area around the island. House Foreign Affairs Committee head Michael McCaul of Texas is leading a delegation of eight other lawmakers for a three-day visit to discuss regional security and trade, according to a statement from AIT.
During Tsai and McCarthy's meeting they spoke of the importance of Taiwan's self-defense, of fostering robust trade and economic ties and supporting the island government's ability to participate in the international community, Tsai said. The United States broke off official ties with Taiwan in 1979 while formally establishing diplomatic relations with the Beijing government. As part of its recognition of China, the U.S. "one-China policy" acknowledges that Beijing lays claim to Taiwan, but does not endorse China's claim, and the U.S. remains Taiwan's key provider of military and defense assistance.
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