{"id":1629697,"date":"2022-09-01T13:02:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T17:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1629697"},"modified":"2022-09-01T13:02:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T17:02:59","slug":"communist-china-is-trying-to-bully-taiwan-into-a-new-status-quo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/communist-china-is-trying-to-bully-taiwan-into-a-new-status-quo\/","title":{"rendered":"Communist China Is Trying To Bully Taiwan Into A New Status Quo"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcommunist-china-is-trying-to-bully-taiwan-into-a-new-status-quo%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1629697&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a bid to further intimidate Taiwan, China\u2019s communist government has used U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s August visit to the island to \u201cpermanently alter\u201d the status quo in the Taiwan Strait, according to U.S. officials. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/nsc-coordinator-kirby-says-china-engaged-in-clear-attempt-to-permanently-alter-the-status-quo-in-taiwan\/ar-AA11jKGN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Speaking<\/a> with reporters on Wednesday, National Security Council Coordinator John Kirby revealed that throughout the entire Pelosi-Taiwan saga, the U.S. government has seen \u201ca clear attempt by the Chinese to permanently alter the status quo in and around Taiwan\u201d and efforts to \u201cset a new normal for their activities and behaviors, be that behavior crossing over the medium line with air and maritime assets or in this case, overflight by unmanned aerial systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has been \u201cvery clear publicly that changing the status quo is unacceptable\u201d and \u201cwe\u2019re not going to recognize it\u201d or \u201cabide by it,\u201d Kirby said.<\/p>\n<p>Following Pelosi\u2019s visit to Taiwan with a delegation of U.S. congressional members last month, China has significantly ramped up its military activity in the region. In addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taiwannews.com.tw\/en\/news\/4614020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blacklisting<\/a> major Taiwanese food exporters, the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) conducted a series of live-fire military drills around Taiwan, with PLA forces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skynews.com.au\/world-news\/peoples-liberation-army-finishes-military-drills-around-taiwan-but-warns-it-will-pay-close-attention-to-evolutions-of-situations\/news-story\/e0aa921a243f47cc3696e15ffeeb469e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sending<\/a> \u201cat least 11 missiles into the seas north, south and east of Taiwan\u201d and \u201cdozens of warships and fighter jets\u201d into the Taiwan Strait.<\/p>\n<p>Lasting nearly a week, the exercises were seemingly only a starting point for China\u2019s communist government, which through a military official claimed that the country would \u201c[c]ontinue to carry out military training for war preparedness\u201d and \u201corganise normalised combat-readiness security patrol in the Taiwan Strait.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While previously limiting the majority of its military activity in the region to Taiwan\u2019s air defense identification zone, China has begun to normalize crossing the median line of the Taiwan Strait since Pelosi\u2019s visit. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/chinas-navy-begins-erase-imaginary-taiwan-strait-median-line-2022-08-25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Developed<\/a> in 1954 \u201cat the height of Cold War hostility between Communist China and U.S.-backed Taiwan,\u201d the imaginary line running through the middle of the Taiwan Strait has acted as of a sort-of buffer zone between the two nations. Although China has never officially recognized the line, \u201cthe People\u2019s Liberation Army [has] largely respected it\u201d until now.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, for instance, Taiwan\u2019s Ministry of National Defense <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MoNDefense\/status\/1564974114460221443?s=20&amp;t=KHcWgrZoF1Z9f04tS0dVBQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> \u201c7 PLAN vessels and 62 PLA aircraft\u201d in the region, with Taiwanese military forces responding to the incursions \u201cwith aircraft in [combat air patrols], naval vessels, and land-based missile systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The routine intrusion came a day after Taiwanese military personnel fired at Chinese surveillance drones for <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/taiwan-fires-china-drones-first-173144266.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">entering<\/a> restricted airspace. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Shawn Fleetwood is a Staff Writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. 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