China summons US ambassador — RT World News

Vice International Minister Xie Feng has urgently summoned the US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns on Tuesday night time, to lodge “stern representations” over the Home Speaker’s go to to Taiwan and warn Washington towards going additional down the “harmful path” of antagonizing Beijing.

“The transfer is extraordinarily egregious in nature and the implications are extraordinarily severe. China is not going to sit idly by,” Xie instructed Burns, as cited by Xinhua.

“Taiwan is China’s Taiwan, and Taiwan will finally return to the embrace of the motherland,” Xie added, noting that no pressure and no particular person ought to ever underestimate the “agency resolve, sturdy will and nice functionality” of the Chinese language folks to “defend nationwide sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

“The US should pay the worth for its personal mistake. China will take crucial and resolute countermeasures and we imply what we are saying,” China’s state-run newspaper the International Occasions reported the diplomat as saying.

After Pelosi touched down in Taipei late on Tuesday, Beijing introduced a sequence of navy workout routines and live-fire drills in six giant maritime areas and their air area round Taiwan.

“The Chinese language Folks’s Liberation Military is on excessive alert and can launch a sequence of focused navy operations to counter this, resolutely defend nationwide sovereignty and territorial integrity, and resolutely thwart exterior interference and ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist makes an attempt,” protection ministry spokesman Wu Qian mentioned.

Ambassador Burns has but to touch upon the diplomatic rebuke, however Pelosi herself tweeted out a quick assertion after arriving in Taipei. She claimed her go to honors Washington’s “unwavering dedication” to the self-ruled island, however in “no means contradicts” the long-standing US coverage on Taiwan.

The third most senior official within the US authorities, Nancy Pelosi, is presently on a tour of the Asian area. She has visited Singapore and Malaysia and is anticipated to carry high-level talks in South Korea and Japan. A go to to Taiwan was not on her official itinerary forward of the tour.

Taiwan has been self-governed since 1949, when China’s nationalist authorities fled to the island following its defeat within the civil battle. Beijing considers the island an integral a part of the nation’s territory and has repeatedly warned that the One China precept is a pink line that no nation is allowed to cross.

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