New US ambassador to Beijing, China is an aggressor

(ANSA) - WASHINGTON, OCTOBER 21 - Harsh attack on China by the future US ambassador in Beijing.

"We cannot absolutely trust" the Chinese government with regard to Taiwan "so the US priority is to make Taipei a tough nut to crack," Nicholas Burns, appointed by President Joe Biden to lead the US diplomatic mission in Beijing, said before the US Senate Foreign Affairs Committee.

Burns also talked about the recent incursions by Chinese warplanes into the Taiwan air zone, calling them "particularly questionable".

    A career diplomat who has worked in various US administrations, both under Democrats and Republicans, Burns then accused the Chinese government of being "aggressive towards India along the Himalayan border, Vietnam, the Philippines and others in the South China Sea and Japan, in East China Sea ".

    "Beijing has launched a campaign of intimidation against Australia and, more recently, against Lithuania. The genocide of the People's Republic of China in Xinjiang, its abuses in Tibet, the suffocation of Hong Kong's autonomy and freedom and the bullying against Taiwan are unfair and must cease ", Burns continued without halting terms, finally underlining that China's power should not be overestimated:" They have very few friends. They have no real allies ", he decreed inviting" not to give too much weight to their strengths or to underestimate those of the United States, "he told the commission.

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