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US blasts China’s ‘destabilising’ military activity near Taiwan
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WASHINGTON, 13 June 2022, (TON): US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin blasted China’s “provocative, destabilising” military activity near Taiwan, as well as Beijing’s growing aggression across the wider Asia-Pacific region.
Tensions between Washington and Beijing are soaring over democratic, self-ruled Taiwan, which China views as its territory and has vowed to seize one day, by force if necessary.
Beijing has conducted dozens of incursions into Taiwan’s air defence zone this year, and Defence Minister Wei Fenghe warned Austin that China was prepared to go to war if the island declares independence.
In an address to the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore, Austin took aim at Beijing’s growing coercion towards Taiwan, a day after holding his first face-to-face talks with Wei.
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