"The United States is not seeking and does not want a crisis with China but we are ready to handle whatever Beijing decides to do".
White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said this in a press briefing.
The Taiwanese Ministry of Defense
reported a raid of 27 Chinese fighters in the air defense area on the
day of the departure of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
"27 People's Liberation Army aircraft entered the area surrounding the Republic of China on August 3, 2022," the ministry clarified in a tweet, changing the traditional mention of the Adiz (the air defense identification zone) and making to understand that something different may have happened today.
The fighters reported are six J-11s, five J-16s and sixteen Su-30s.
"There is no justification" for China's "aggressive" military exercises in the Taiwan Strait.
The
G7
underlines this .
"I join my fellow G7 foreign ministers in reaffirming our common commitment to maintaining international order, peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and beyond."
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
writes on Twitter
, publishing the statement in which the G7 expresses concern about the "unjustified" and "aggressive" threats of military action by China.
The speaker of the US House Nancy Pelosi left Taipei
at 18.01 (12.01 in Italy) with the Boeing C-40C of the US Air Force, closing the short visit of almost 20 hours during which she met with President Tsai Ing-wen and sent China is on a rampage.
You can see it from the live streams covering the event.
The speaker is now headed to Seoul, South Korea, the next stop on her tour in Asia.
The United States "will not abandon its commitment to Taiwan"
, assured the speaker of the US House Nancy Pelosi in her brief introductory speech given at the meeting in Taipei with President Tsai Ing-wen, after receiving an honor for the efforts made in collaboration between Washington and Taipei.
Tsai, on her part, had said shortly before that she considered Pelosi to be "a true friend" of Taiwan, remarking that the island "is a reliable partner of the United States" and that "no military threat could make us withdraw".
Taiwan will not give up in the face of military threats
: President Tsai Ing-wen assured that the island "will not back down" in the midst of China's fury for the visit of the speaker of the American House Nancy Pelosi, who announced an extraordinary number yes military air, naval and shooting exercises to besiege the island.
"In the face of deliberately increased military threats, Taiwan will not back down. We will continue to maintain the defense line of democracy", assured Tsai, speaking with the American speaker next to the muscle test decided by Beijing.
The Taiwanese Ministry of Defense
condemned the large-scale military exercises around the island announced by Beijing in retaliation
for the visit to Taipei by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, for violating UN rules, such as violating territorial waters.
"Some of the areas plotted by the maneuvers end up in Taiwan's territorial waters," ministry spokesman Sun Li-fang noted at a press conference, noting that "this is an irrational move to challenge the international order."
The Taiwanese military "will defend national security," Sun added.
The United States, with the visit of the speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, "violates the sovereignty" of China and those who offend Beijing will be "punished", according to the Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, state media report.
"It is a real farce. The United States is violating China's sovereignty under the pretext of so-called 'democracy' ... whoever offends China will be punished," Wang said referring to Pelosi's visit, on the sidelines of a meeting. of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Phnom Penh.
China has suspended the export of natural sand
to Taiwan, dealing an immediate blow to the island's strategic production of semiconductors.
The move, further retaliation for the visit of the speaker of the American Chamber Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, was announced in a note from the Ministry of Commerce, according to which the decision was made "in line with relevant laws and regulations".
In spite of the measure, the world giant of Taiwanese microprocessors, Tmsc, earns 0.90% against a list in Taipei which, among the few in Asia, travels in negative territory, at -0.10%.
China has introduced a new
stop on imports from Taiwan, targeting other types of citrus and fish
for the alleged "repeated" detection of excessive pesticide residues and positive Covid-19 tests on packaging.
Since Monday evening, when US and Taiwanese officials confirmed that Pelosi was traveling to Taiwan to meet with President Tsai Ing-wen, Chinese Customs have suspended imports of more than 2,000 of the approximately 3,200 food items arriving from Taiwan.
At the beginning of 2021, China had banned the Taiwanese pineapple: the move, used as a means of lobbying Taipei, was addressed by the local government with a viral campaign marketing the fruit as "pineapple of freedom" and "pineapple of democracy. ", helping to open alternative export markets.
Taiwanese officials, according to local media,
