Taiwan conflict: USA rages about "irresponsible" Chinese and speaks of "significant escalation"
Created: 08/08/2022 05:11
By: Bedrettin Bölükbasi
China's military actions near Taiwan are coming to a head.
According to Taipei, Beijing is simulating an attack on the island.
The news ticker.
Trump
rages about "crazy" Pelosi
's trip to Taiwan
: the former US President lashed out at a campaign event against the speaker of the House of Representatives.
China
is conducting
military maneuvers around Taiwan
: Apparently Beijing is "simulating" an attack.
Taiwan official
found dead
in hotel
: He was in charge of missile production.
This
news ticker
on the
Taiwan-China conflict
is constantly updated.
Update from August 7, 9:36 a.m.:
"You are provocative, irresponsible and increase the risk of miscalculation": With these words, a White House spokesman condemned China's military maneuvers around Taiwan.
The
Guardian
reports .
These activities are "a significant escalation in China's efforts to change the status quo," the British newspaper quoted the US government spokesman as saying.
The Chinese government, for its part, has again sharply criticized the Joe Biden government for Nancy Pelosi's visit: Deputy Secretary of State Hua Chunying accused her on Twitter of "stop flexing muscles on China's doorstep."
Pelosi's visit to Taiwan was the most senior from the US in a quarter-century -- China angered by its claim to the island.
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Trump rages over 'crazy' Pelosi's Taiwan trip: 'What the heck'
Update from August 6, 11:45 a.m .:
During a speech in the US state of Wisconsin, former US President Donald Trump criticized the visit to Taiwan by the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi.
"Crazy Nancy Pelosi, what the hell!" Trump said in his speech to supporters.
"What was she doing in Taiwan?" he asked.
Pelosi was "a dream for China" and gave the People's Republic a "pretext".
"You've been waiting for this excuse," Trump said.
Taiwan conflict: Blinken with accusation against China - "increasingly destabilizing"
Update from August 6, 11:25 a.m .:
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has accused China of using US top politician Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan to escalate tensions around the democratic island.
Beijing has already carried out "increasingly destabilizing and potentially dangerous actions in relation to Taiwan in recent years," said Blinken during a visit to the Philippines.
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Changing the status quo in the Taiwan Strait straits comes from Beijing, not the United States, Blinken said, referring to Chinese missile tests and military exercises near Taiwan.
Blinken spoke of a "total mismatch" between Pelosi's peaceful visit and China's escalating military maneuvers.
Taiwan conflict: Pelosi's visit to Taipei caused a stir in China
First report from August 6:
Munich - The speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, caused a stir in China with her visit to the democratically self-governing island of Taiwan.
Beijing regards the island as its own territory and thus an internal matter.
Pelosi's visit was therefore perceived as a "violation of Chinese sovereignty".
China conducts military maneuvers around Taiwan - Taipei accuses Beijing of "attack simulation".
In response, China's "People's Liberation Army" (PLA) launched military maneuvers in six areas around the island.
According to the Taiwanese military, China has now "simulated" an attack on the island during these maneuvers.
According to the Defense Ministry in Taipei, numerous military aircraft and warships were operating near Taiwan in the morning.
Some of them would have crossed the unofficial but mostly mutually respected "median line" down the middle of the Taiwan Strait separating the mainland and the island.
In response, Taiwan's military sent out planes and radio warnings, and mobilized anti-missile defense systems to pursue the Chinese military planes.
Chinese planes regularly penetrate the island's air defense zone.
China and Taiwan: That's what the conflict is about
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Taiwan official found dead in hotel - he was in charge of missile production
Meanwhile, Taiwan's senior official in charge of missile production, Ouyang Lixing, was found dead in a hotel in southern Taiwan.
This was reported by the British newspaper
The Guardian
, citing Taiwanese media.
The cause of the scientist's death was a heart attack, it said.
According to the authorities, no external influence was found.
The official is said to have suffered from heart disease, according to his family, as reported by the
Reuters
news agency .
Lixing, 57, was the deputy head of the military's Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology.
There he managed several projects for the production of missiles for the Taiwanese army.
So the situation around Taiwan is getting worse.
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How did the tensions in the Far East come about in the first place?
Background to the Taiwan-China conflict.
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