The US State Department said on Saturday that the United States was “deeply concerned” over China’s military training in the Taiwan Strait and around Taiwan, and strongly urged it to work with caution.
” Using a regular, habit, and democratic transition as an excuse for military threats risks increase and erodes longstanding standards that for centuries have maintained peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait,” the State Department said in a statement.
The office issued the assertion after China ended two days of war games around Taiwan in which it simulated problems with planes and embraced sailing boats, exercises that Taiwan condemned as “blatant incitement” on Saturday.
China, which claims politically controlled Taiwan as its own place, launched the” Joint Sword- 2024A” activities three times after Lai Ching-te became Taiwan’s leader, a man Beijing calls a” dissident. “
Beijing said the exercises were “punishment” for Lai’s Monday inauguration speech, in which he said the two sides of the Taiwan Strait were” not subordinate to each other,” which China viewed as a declaration the two are separate countries.
