Defense Minister Wellington Koo stated on Wednesday that a siege by China would constitute an act of war because it would have a different effect on the worldwide community as well.
After last week’s maneuvers by China that practiced such a situation, Koo spoke to reporters at congress:” If you really want to carry out a so-called siege, which according to international laws is to prevent all plane and ships entering the area, therefore, according to United Nations resolutions, it is regarded as a form of battle”.
” I want to emphasize that drills and exercises are completely distinct from a siege, as would the effect on the international community.”
Over the past five decades, China, which views Taiwan as its own place as a democratically controlled nation, has carried out almost daily military operations around the area, including blockades and attacks on ports. Taiwan’s state rejects Beijing’s independence says, Reuters reported.
He emphasized that” the global community could hardly sit by and simply watch” and that “one-fifth of the world’s cargo passes through the Taiwan Strait.” A blockade may have effects beyond Taiwan.
Despite the realization of the current conflict games, Chinese military exercise has persisted. On Wednesday, Taiwan’s defence ministry reported that a Chinese aircraft carrier party, led by the Targets, sailed through the Taiwan Strait in a northerly course after passing through waters near the Taiwan-controlled Pratas territories. Koo noted that the Targets was sailing to the northern end of the strait’s middle column, a legally binding barrier between the two countries that China claims not to acknowledge.
China asserts sole jurisdiction over the nearly 180 km ( 110 miles ) wide waterway, a major passageway for international trade. However, Taiwan and the United States dispute this state, maintaining that the Taiwan Strait is an international lake. The US Navy often sails through the sea to proclaim freedom of navigation right, and various allied countries, such as Canada, Germany, and Britain, have carried out similar missions, far to Beijing’s anger.
Taiwan has even expressed concern about China’s use of its coast guard in new war game and worries that Taiwanese human ships may become boarded and inspected as Beijing attempts to impose legal jurisdiction over the sea. In a report to parliament on Wednesday, Taiwan’s coast guard stated that if such incidents occurred, its ships would respond under the principle of “neither provoking nor backing down” and stop such acts” with all its strength”.
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China conducts military exercises in Taiwan, a self-declared island nation ( AP Image ).
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