{"id":1923088,"date":"2023-05-03T00:13:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T04:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/west-should-view-chinas-threat-to-taiwan-as-threats-against-us-all-czech-foreign-minister\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T00:13:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T04:13:12","slug":"west-should-view-chinas-threat-to-taiwan-as-threats-against-us-all-czech-foreign-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/west-should-view-chinas-threat-to-taiwan-as-threats-against-us-all-czech-foreign-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"West should view China’s threat to Taiwan as ‘threats against us all’: Czech foreign minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The United States and European powers should treat China’s<\/a> aggression toward Taiwan as \u201cthreats against us all,\u201d according to the Czech Republic<\/a>\u2019s top diplomat.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must increase the cooperation within democratic partners in the Indo-Pacific, including Taiwan,\u201d Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said Tuesday. \u201cWe must leave no doubt that we consider all threats against them to be threats against us all, and that, as in the case of Ukraine, we will support them to the best of our abilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Czechia and several other European states liberated by the collapse of the Soviet Union have taken a hawkish approach <\/a>to China in recent years. Their motivations range from their anti-communist heritage<\/a> to a strategic desire to curry favor with the U.S., their most important bulwark against Russia, but Lipavsky offered a more direct justification for their aversion to \u201cthe Beijing regime,\u201d as he put it.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussian aggression against Ukraine is the most imminent security threat certainly to us in Central Europe,\u201d Lipavsky told a Hudson Institute audience in Washington. \u201cHowever, there is no doubt that the rise of China is the greatest systemic challenge to the current international order.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such an assessment is commonplace in Washington, as U.S. officials regard the Chinese communist regime\u2019s rapid military modernization as a harbinger of struggle for access to the shipping lanes of the Indo-Pacific seas. It is more novel coming from a European policymaker, but Lipavsky warned that China already \u201cis increasingly aggressive\u201d in non-military arenas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Beijing regime does not even conceal its ambition to alter the international system anymore,\u201d he said. \u201cChina has been promoting its governance model to the Global South. It has stepped up its effort to get key multilateral organizations under its influence, especially those setting the international standards. And we should be honest about this: It has [had] some success in doing so.\u201d<\/p>\n

The blunting of that Chinese threat, he maintained, depends to a great extent on the defeat of Russia in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a nutshell, we must do whatever it takes to support Ukraine and help it to win this war \u2014 for the sake of Ukraine and its brave people, but above all, for the sake of our ability to continue our fight for a safer and [more] stable world,\u201d he said. “Russia has portrayed this war as a conflict with the West, and whatever we might say, many countries will continue to see it this way. If Ukraine loses, our credibility will suffer greatly among our friends just as much among our enemies.\u201d<\/p>\n

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U.S. and European powers have made halting progress toward a common China policy over the last several years, but the process has been marred at times by economic disputes and political acrimony within the alliance. French President Emmanuel Macron<\/a> sparked a trans-Atlantic furor<\/a> last month by challenging the idea that European states should warn Beijing not to attack Taiwan \u2014 during a trip to China, he reiterated<\/a> his belief that the European Union needs<\/a> \u201cstrategic autonomy\u201d from the United States \u2014 but Lipavsky rejected that line of thinking.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat can we do as Europeans? First and foremost, we must not allow China to weaken the trans-Atlantic bond,\u201d the Czech foreign minister said. \u201cWe might have differences between ourselves, but we know that we are allies, and that we share one goal to safeguard our security and prosperity and the rules-based international order.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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