By Zoila Palma: Today, Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) issued a statement condemning the actions of China for escalating tensions across the Taiwan Strait.
Taiwan’s officials say that China’s People’s Liberation Army Eastern Theater Command announced the launch of a military exercise today which will be conducted around Taiwan from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on December 30.
“Such actions once again challenge the rules-based international order and will unilaterally inflict grave damage to peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and the region. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) strongly condemns the exercise and calls on China to immediately halt its groundless and provocative military activities,” the statement said.
Taiwan says that through a series of military exercises and confrontational actions by its aircraft and vessels, China has carried out a range of threatening activities and practiced gray-zone strategies in the waters and airspace of the Indo-Pacific region.
“This behavior fully demonstrates that China not only has no interest in maintaining global and regional peace and stability but also will continue to challenge the international order and disrupt the regional status quo time and again.
Maintaining Taiwan Strait peace and stability is an international consensus and a key interest of many parties, yet China insists on using military exercises and other means to threaten Taiwan and neighboring countries—particularly those along the first island chain,” the statement added.
Taiwanese officials noted that such actions defy the principle of refraining from the threat or use of force set out in the UN Charter and violates international norms.
Taiwan says that China’s actions harm peace, stability, and security throughout the Indo-Pacific and undermines the status quo across the Taiwan Strait and the region.
Taiwan’s MOFA further calls on China to uphold its responsibilities as a great power and put an immediate halt to its bullying.
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By Zoila Palma: Today, Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) issued a statement condemning the actions of China for escalating tensions across the Taiwan Strait. Taiwan’s officials say that China’s People’s Liberation Army Eastern Theater Command announced the launch of a military exercise today which will be conducted around Taiwan from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00
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