The president of United States, Joe Bidenreiterated this Saturday the US opposition to an independence of Taiwanafter the victory of the ruling party William Lai in the presidential elections.
“We do not support the independence” of the territory, said the president when asked in Washington by reporters about the results of the elections in Taiwan, where Lai won with 40.2% of the votes.
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The president’s statements came hours after Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, congratulated The I for his victory in a statement, where he also noted that the US is committed to “peace and stability” in the region.
“We look forward to working with Lai (…) and promoting our long-standing unofficial relationship, in line with the one-China policy,” the diplomat stressed in a statement.
The choice of The Iof the Democratic Progressive Party (PDP), cemented Taiwan’s commitment to sovereignty and predicts a further escalation of tensions with China.
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The Taiwanese issue continues to be one of the main points of friction between China and the United States, which, apart from being the main supplier of weapons to Taiwancould be faced with the situation of having to defend the island in the event of conflict.
The president of the USA, Joe Biden, met last November with Xi Jinping in San Francisco in an attempt to iron out the differences between both powers. The leaders then agreed to resume military talks.
The I He won with 40% of the votes in the elections, and in his first speech after the elections this Saturday he assured that between “democracy and authoritarianism”, the Taiwanese remained “on the side of democracy.”
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In the past, the newly elected president TaiwaneseWilliam Lai, defined himself as a “pragmatic worker for the independence of Taiwan”, although he does not consider it necessary to formally declare the secession of the island, arguing that it already functions, de facto, as an independent country.
The winning candidate, who will take office on May 20, belongs to the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (PDP), which with this victory will chain three consecutive terms in the presidency of the island, a milestone that occurs for the first time in democratic history. of Taiwan.
Taiwan – where the Chinese nationalist army withdrew after defeat at the hands of communist troops in the civil war – has been autonomously governed since 1949, although China claims sovereignty over the island, which it considers a rebellious province for whose ” reunification” has not ruled out the use of force.