China’s foreign minister on Wednesday said Taiwan’s independence poses the greatest threat to stability in the immediate region but vowed no new action that could bring Beijing into conflict with the United States or others amid rising tensions,
AP reports.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke during a visit by U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to Beijing. The White House said the two sides welcomed efforts in “planning for a leader-level call in the coming weeks.”
Taiwan, a self-governing island democracy that split from authoritarian communist China in 1949, has rejected Beijing’s demands that it accept unification with the mainland by peace or by force.
The U.S. should comply with Chinese interpretations regarding China and “support China’s peaceful reunification,” the official Xinhua News Agency quoted Wang as saying.
The White House statement said Sullivan “underscored the importance of maintaining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.”
The U.S. has been trying to get relations with China on more of an even keel following disputes over trade and Beijing’s financial backing for Russia’s defense industry during its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
