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US Secretary Antony Blinken warns China against changing status quo in Taiwan

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has warned China against changing the status quo in Taiwan, which is vital to maintaining peace and stability in the region. Over the past few years, China has been trying to exert military and economic pressure on Taiwan, Blinken said during an interview Friday with David Axelrod, founding director of the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics.

Foreign minister said “In Taiwan, what we’ve seen in the last few years is that China has decided, in my view, that it’s no longer comfortable with the status quo, the status quo that’s prevailed for decades, that’s actually been successful in terms of the relationship between our countries and managing this difficult situation”.

He also said “We’ve seen in the last few years … they’re increasing pressure on Taiwan, military pressure, economic pressure, trying to cut its ties to countries around the world, to international organizations”.

From America’s perspective, the status quo has worked and is essential to what is important to the US, which is maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, he added.

Antony Blinken said Fifty percent of the container ships that move around the world every day pass through the Taiwan Strait, 70 percent or more of the world’s high-end computer chips are made in Taiwan. If that is disrupted, the entire world economy will suffer, Every country in the world has an interest in peace and stability remaining in the strait and differences being resolved peacefully, not by coercion, not by coercion and certainly not by the use of force”.

Blinken is scheduled to travel to Beijing next month

Antony Blinken said “We’re in a competition. I think we have a moment in time that we can also talk about where we’re no longer in the post-Cold War era. There’s a competition for what comes next, China is a leading competitor and in many ways their vision of what the world should be and where it should be going is not the same as ours. But competition is one thing, conflict is another. It’s in our interest to make sure that while we compete very, very vigorously, we avoid … dodging into conflict”.

One of the ways to do that is to make sure that you have really good lines of communication, that you’re talking, that you’re engaging, that you’re putting some kind of guardrails on the relationship, that you’re putting a floor under it. That’s what President (Biden) and President Xi were doing in Bali.

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