Taiwan has ‘right to remain free’, US senator says in visit criticised by China | Taiwan
A visit to Taiwan by two US senators received criticism from China, who claims the island as the candidate and the objects of the two sides, with any contact.
Roger Wicker, President of the Senate Armed Services Committee and Deb Fischer, Nebraska Senator, came to Taipei on Friday for a series of senior Taiwan leaders. According to the American Institute in Taiwan, according to the American Institute in Taiwan, a de facto embassy instead of official diplomatic relations with self-governing island democracy, they plan to discuss the US-TAYVAN relations, regional security and trade and investments.
In the arrival, Wicker said: “A developing democracy is never fully guaranteed… and we are here to talk to our friends and allies in Taiwan about what we are doing to improve peace.”
Wicker, Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-Tepei at the Presidential Office in Taipei, said they visited Fischer and Taiwan to better understand the needs and concerns.
Wicker, “Here, we come here by deciding that a free country like long -term friendship and Taiwan has the right to be free and self -determination,” Wicker said.
“It is extremely important that we are here during the global restlessness, Fis Fischer added that the discussions would contain“ security, opportunities and progress for this part of the world ”.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun protested against the visit of the two Republican and said, “Weakened China’s sovereignty and regional integrity and sent a heavy wrong signal to the separatist Taiwan Independence Forces”.
The US is the largest weapon supplier of Taiwan. As part of Beijing’s threat of invasion, the latest generation of tanks, air defense missiles and raised F-16 jet warriors to the island.
China sees the US supply of weapons to Taiwan as a violation of commitments made by the previous White House administrations.
However, because Donald Trump started his duty and started a global trade war, his US-Taivan ties became nervous, and at the same time he put pressure on spending more on his own defense in Europe and elsewhere.
The Trump administration reportedly rejected Lai’s permission to stop in New York as a part of a planned official trip to Latin America this month after Beijing appealed. Lai reportedly canceled the trip later.
