A media outlet affiliated with China’s ruling party, The Global Times, published an editorial saying that the nation will take “all necessary measures” to secure its control over Taiwan.
The Taiwan’s political status has remained a divisive geopolitical issue for the past few decades. China claims the island as its own territory and has been hostile towards foreign powers that do not recognize its claim.
However, many in Taiwan and abroad see it as an independent nation. A recent poll found that 52 percent of Americans believe that “other countries should help Taiwan” if it were attacked by China.
The Global Times is a daily tabloid news outlet published by People’s Daily, an editorial team operated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Like other state media, the outlet’s editorial page is frequently used to express the CCP’s views and stances.
The outlet published an article titled “Talking about ‘peace’ without ‘a China ‘ is inflaming the war in the Taiwan Strait.” It was written in response to comments made on Wednesday by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in which he said China was seeking to exert more pressure in pursuit of “reunification” with Taiwan.
“What has changed is this: the Beijing government’s decision that the status quo was no longer acceptable, that they wanted to speed up the process by which they would seek reunification,” Blinken said at an event organized by Bloomberg . “That is what has fundamentally changed.”
Furthermore, the editorial said that any attempt to discuss peace in across the Taiwan Strait without acknowledging that “one China” would incite future conflicts in the region. He insisted that “Taiwan is part of China, and China’s sovereignty and territory have never been divided”.
The article continued: “Using the excuse of seeking ‘peace’ to instigate the war, Washington has long demonstrated its hypocrisy, and the truth has become clearer: it is Taiwan’s secessionists and outside forces, as well as the increasingly rampant US-Taiwan collusion that are the perpetrators of the destruction of the peaceful environment across the Strait”.
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