World News | Macron, von der Leyen’s recent visit to China does not provide a European united front

brussels [Belgium]April 14 (ANI): The recent trip to China by French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen may have muddied the waters as it did not provide insight into the China-Taiwan situation and these Tensions between global powers to provide a unified European strategic approach are not expected to abate anytime soon, according to the Eurasian Foundation (EAF).

Moreover, in the situation in Taiwan, China and the United States, both sides are playing so-called “transit diplomacy”.

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Americans did this when the president of Taiwan visited their country briefly. When a former Taiwanese president visited the mainland, the Chinese did. According to the EAF report, so far, the so-called anger and hurt that China has expressed by launching military exercises is nothing more than a planned display of discontent.

The Chinese government has let the world know that it is angry over a meeting between Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California.

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The conference comes a week after English was honored in New York. English’s visit to the US en route to a long-term trip to Central America comes at a time when hostility toward China is growing. The Americans spared no effort to use the opportunity to “sneak peeks” at China, although they officially downplayed the incident, EAF reported.

Under Washington’s longstanding “One China” policy, the United States recognizes China’s position that Taiwan is part of China but has never formally recognized Beijing’s claim to the island of 23 million people. It also has a legal obligation under the Taiwan Relations Act to provide the democratic island with means of self-defense.

For Taiwan, the rare bipartisan high-level meeting was a timely signal of U.S. support as China ramps up diplomatic and military pressure on the self-governing island it claims as part of its territory. But the last time Tsai met with the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives – during Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei last August – Beijing retaliated by staging days of massive military exercises and firing missiles at Taiwan, which would Tensions are at their highest level in decades. This time, Beijing’s response—while initially restrained, recent air drills suggest little has changed in their approach.

At the same time, the political significance of the meeting between Tsai Ing-wen and McCarthy cannot be avoided. This is the highest-level audience ever received by a sitting president of Taiwan on U.S. soil, second only to the vice president as the second official to the presidency.

China wasted no time in launching military exercises near Taiwan. PLA spokesman Shi Yin said China would send aircraft, ships and personnel into sea and airspace in the Taiwan Strait, Taiwan’s northern and southern coasts and the island’s east.

The report details the types of weapons China will use, including long-range rocket launchers, naval destroyers, missile boats, air force fighter jets, bombers, jammers and tankers. China ended three days of military exercises near Taiwan on Monday, saying they had tested integrated military capabilities in combat conditions, conducted precision strikes and blocked islands that Beijing considers its own.

But China has kept quiet about the parallel transit diplomacy it has indulged in while publicly criticizing English-speaking visits to the United States. In fact, it launched a massive charm offensive by inviting President Tsai Ing-wen’s predecessor, Ma Ying-jeou, to visit the mainland, EAF reported.

Ma made an unprecedented five-city tour, ostensibly to honor his ancestors. He visited their graves in central China. But the trip was also political. In fact, this is the first time that a former president of Taiwan has been invited to visit the People’s Republic of China since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. (ANI)

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