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US rebuffs China by calling Taiwan Strait an international waterway
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15 June 2022
WASHINGTON, 15 June 2022, (TON): The United States backed Taiwan’s assertion that the strait dividing the island from the Chinese mainland is an international waterway, a further rebuff to Beijing’s claim to exercise sovereignty over the strategic passage.
The Taiwan Strait has been a frequent source of military tension since the defeated Republic of China government fled to Taiwan in 1949 after losing a civil war with the communists, who established the People’s Republic of China.
In recent years, US warships, and on occasion those from allied nations such as Britain and Canada, have sailed through the strait, drawing Beijing’s anger.
China’s Foreign Ministry said “the country has sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction over the Taiwan Strait and called it a false claim when certain countries call the Taiwan Strait ‘international waters’.”
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