NEW YORK: Senior diplomats from the United States and China will meet on Friday (Sep 23) with tensions high after a visit to Taiwan by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and an explicit pledge by US President Joe Biden to defend the Chinese-claimed island. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet Chinese
Biden's statement is the latest instance of his appearing to go beyond a long-standing US policy of"strategic ambiguity", which does not make it clear whether Washington would respond militarily to an attack on Taiwan.
In a phone call with Biden in July, China's leader Xi Jinping warned about Taiwan, saying"those who play with fire will perish by it." China sees democratically governed Taiwan as one of its provinces. Beijing has long-vowed to bring Taiwan under its control and has not ruled out the use of force to do so.
Earlier in the week, Wang met with former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the architect of US relations with communist China, and said a"peaceful reunification" with Taiwan was China's aspiration.
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