China urges US to stop using ‘Taiwan card’

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian – Photo: CHINA DAILY

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was originally scheduled to give a policy speech China on May 5, but had to delay after he tested positive for COVID-19.

State Department spokesman Ned Price said the speech would be rescheduled to “sometime in the not-too-distant future.”

According to the newspaper South China Morning PostOn May 5, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian declined to comment on the expected speech, but wished Blinken a speedy recovery.

Mr. Zhao assessed that US-China relations are currently at an important stage and “we hope the US side will implement the positive statements of President Joe Biden and abandon the outdated ‘zero-sum’ thinking. during the cold war”.

The “zero-sum” mindset is a term derived from game theory to talk about situations where one person’s gain would be another’s loss.

China’s foreign ministry spokesman reiterated Beijing requires Washington to abide by President Biden’s pledges not to pursue a new cold war, not to seek to change China’s system, not to target entered China through the US alliance system, and did not support “Taiwan independence”.

“Currently, the situation in the Taiwan Strait is facing a new round of tension. The root cause is that the Taiwanese government relies on the US for ‘independence’ and some people in the US have the intention to ‘use it’. Taiwan to control China'” – Mr. Zhao said.

Mr. Zhao said that in the past time, the US has used the “Taiwan card” more and more and coordinated with a number of countries to inflate issues related to Taiwan to promote “internationalization of the Taiwan issue”. “.

“These actions endanger the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait, and go further and further along a very dangerous route,” Zhao said.

He called on the US to strengthen communication, resolve differences, focus on cooperation and push US-China relations back on the right track of healthy and stable development. “Both history and reality show that China and the United States will benefit from cooperation and lose from confrontation,” Zhao said.