Washington is excited about the security relations between Moscow and Beijing, which are developing rapidly. The White House was especially concerned after Russian leader Vladimir Putin criticized the United States for the provocative visit to the island of Taiwan by Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi. The newspaper wrote about it The New York Post on Thursday, August 18, citing State Department spokesman Ned Price.
He told reporters that China’s and Russia’s convergence of views on international order and security is causing unrest in Washington.
On Wednesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin drew attention to the fact that Beijing highly appreciates the announcement of the Russian president, where the head of state calls Pelosi’s visit “an adventure and a provocation”, and the Chinese also positively assessed Putin’s statement about the “one China” principle.
A day earlier, the head of state commented on the visit of the speaker of the US House of Representatives to Taiwan, calling this visit an adventure that is aimed at destabilizing the situation in the world. The President of Russia also noted that the Russian government sees in this behavior of the United States a well-planned strategy to destabilize and chaoticize the situation in the region and the world.
On August 2, after Pelosi arrived in Taiwan, the situation around the island worsened. Pelosi called her trip “a testament to the United States’ commitment to supporting Taiwanese democracy.”
Beijing decided to temporarily suspend cooperation with America in several areas. In addition, China began military exercises near Taiwan. Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Wu Qian said on August 8 that the United States is solely to blame for the current tense situation, for this reason, the United States must bear the consequences.
Official relations between the Chinese government and its island were severed in 1949, when the Kuomintang forces, led by Chiang Kai-shek, who lost in the civil war with the Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China, crossed into Taiwan. Contacts between Taiwan and mainland China were renewed in the late 1980s. The United States openly supports the Taiwanese authorities.
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