China Strongly Criticizes Taiwan's Invitation to Biden 'Democracy Summit'
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian in Beijing on November 19, 2021. AP - Liu Zheng
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It was a campaign promise from the American president, the first version of the “summit of democracy” will take place online on December 9 and 10, 2021. In total, 110 countries are invited including Taiwan, which immediately made Beijing jump.
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With our correspondent in Beijing,
Stéphane Lagarde
This American invitation to Taiwan triggered a double reaction on the Chinese side: first that of the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zhao Lijian who expressed his “
firm opposition
” and recalled that for People's China, “
Taiwan no. has no other status than that of an integral part of China
.
"
An "
error
"
The spokesperson for the Chinese office of Taiwanese Affairs, Zhu Fenglian objected, it is a constancy of Chinese diplomacy, to "
any official interaction between the United States and the Chinese region of Taiwan
", qualifying in passing the invitation made by the United States to Taiwan, "
error
."
For the communist authorities, this proposal of Biden is a snub after the virtual meeting between the American and Chinese presidents, a little more than a week ago.
A meeting where, for Beijing,
the question of Taiwan and the “one China” was precisely central.
China seeks an answer
Beijing is already looking for an answer to
this "
error
" which probably involves closer ties with countries not invited to the "summit of democracies".
Yesterday Tuesday, China and Russia moved closer to a
de facto
military alliance
by agreeing to expand cooperation through strategic exercises and joint patrols in the Asia-Pacific.
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