{"id":937214,"date":"2021-10-29T12:29:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T16:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=937214"},"modified":"2021-10-29T12:29:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T16:29:14","slug":"china-u-s-troops-in-taiwan-could-trigger-a-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-u-s-troops-in-taiwan-could-trigger-a-war\/","title":{"rendered":"China: U.S. Troops in Taiwan &#039;Could Trigger a War&#039;"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fchina-u-s-troops-in-taiwan-could-trigger-a-war%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=937214&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 class=\"subheading\">China\u2019s government-run media have responded to President Tsai Ing-wen\u2019s revelation of an American military presence in Taiwan explosively, warning on Thursday that those troops could \u201ctrigger a war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An alleged political \u201cexpert\u201d quoted in the state propaganda outlet&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> urged the Communist Party to attack both Taiwan and the United States, making moves \u201clike \u2018slamming nails into the hands of the U.S. and Taiwan to make them hurt.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> itself, in an editorial, described democratically elected Taiwanese officials as \u201cquenching their thirst with poison\u201d by relying on American support.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan is a sovereign nation and free society run through a democratic system. China falsely claims Taiwan as a \u201cprovince\u201d despite Beijing historically never having control over the island. The Communist Party forces all countries, including the United States, seeking diplomatic relations with Taiwan to disavow Taiwan\u2019s sovereignty. Washington has traditionally supported Taiwan by allowing it \u201crepresentative offices\u201d it cannot refer to as consulates or embassies on U.S. soil, as well as selling weapons to the Taiwanese military.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/10\/22\/backflip-white-house-contradicts-joe-bidens-promise-to-defend-taiwan\/\">said<\/a> America would become involved militarily in any Taiwan-China clash, prompting the White House to rapidly issue a statement walking back his claim.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18476298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Joe-.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18476298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Joe-.jpeg\" alt=\"President Joe Biden delivers remarks during the annual U.S.-ASEAN Summit via video link from the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on October 26, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Joe Biden delivers remarks during the annual U.S.-ASEAN Summit via video link from the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on October 26, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tsai, who became Taiwan\u2019s first president on a wave of anti-communist sentiment, told CNN in an interview published Wednesday that American forces are present on the island. She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/10\/27\/asia\/tsai-ingwen-taiwan-china-interview-intl-hnk\/index.html\">asserted<\/a> that these troops were \u201cnot as many as people thought.\u201d America does not have any official military presence in Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a wide range of cooperation with the US aiming at increasing our defense capability,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>Tsai asserted that she believed the United States, and other free states around the world, would support Taiwan in the event of a Chinese military attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaiwan is not alone because we are a democracy, we respect freedom and we are peace lovers,\u201d Tsai argued, \u201cand we share values with most of the countries in the region and geographically we are of strategic importance.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIf we fail, then that means people that believe in these values would doubt whether these are values that they (should) be fighting for,\u201d she continued, making the case that the free world has a vested interest in Taiwan\u2019s success.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em>, an official Chinese regime mouthpiece, asserted that Tsai would \u201csurely face consequences coming from the Chinese mainland, including more military activities\u201d in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202110\/1237519.shtml\">response<\/a> to her remarks on Thursday. Chinese media refer to the legal territory of China as the \u201cChinese mainland,\u201d implying that territories outside of China also belong to China.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_14807427\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"41\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/oct10-2020-taiwan-president-flags-ap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14807427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/oct10-2020-taiwan-president-flags-ap.jpg\" alt=\"Taiwan&#039;s President Tsai Ing-wen, right, and Yu Shyi-kun, speaker of the Legislative Yuan, cheer with audience during National Day celebrations in front of the Presidential Building in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020. President Tsai said Saturday she has hopes for less tensions with China and in the region if Beijing will listen to Taipei\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s concerns, alter its approach and restart dialogue with the self-ruled island democracy. (AP Photo\/Chiang Ying-ying)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taiwan\u2019s President Tsai Ing-wen, right, and Yu Shyi-kun, speaker of the Legislative Yuan, cheer with the audience during National Day celebrations in front of the Presidential Building in Taipei, Taiwan, October 10, 2020. (AP Photo\/Chiang Ying-ying)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>One of the \u201cexperts\u201d quoted in the piece, professor Li Fei, advised the Communist Party to \u201cstrengthen military presence \u2026 including all necessary activities conducted by military aircraft and vessels to crackdown the secessionist attempt within the island that was backed by the US.\u201d The Chinese Communist Party refers to the legitimate government of Taiwan as a \u201csecessionist\u201d movement.<\/p>\n<p>Another <em>Global Times<\/em> \u201cexpert\u201d advised, \u201cthe Chinese mainland should take real actions to make the US and Taiwan secessionists pay the price, like \u2018slamming nails into the hands of the US and Taiwan to make them hurt.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>In a staff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202110\/1237509.shtml\">editorial<\/a>, the regime newspaper predicted an American military presence in Taiwan \u201ccould trigger a war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistory will not forgive them. The Chinese mainland has the ability to execute the history\u2019s just judgment on them,\u201d the propagandists wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Through her interview, they continued, Tsai sought for China to \u201cresolve the Taiwan question by force. They know very well that they are quenching their thirst with poison. They are hysterically drinking poison portion after portion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Foreign Ministry itself, as usual, did not take as violent a tone as the belligerent&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em>. Spokesman Wang Wenbin addressed the interview by largely condemning America.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15234612\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"34\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Wang-Wenbin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15234612\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Wang-Wenbin.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin takes a question during the daily Foreign Ministry briefing in Beijing on July 24, 2020. - China on July 24 ordered the US consulate in the southwestern city of Chengdu to close in retaliation for one of its missions in the United States being shuttered, capping a furious week of Cold War-style diplomacy. (Photo by GREG BAKER \/ AFP) (Photo by GREG BAKER\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin takes a question during the daily Foreign Ministry briefing in Beijing on July 24, 2020. (Greg Baker\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. vessels have repeatedly flexed its muscles to make provocations and stir up troubles in the Taiwan Strait in recent times,\u201d Wang <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmprc.gov.cn\/mfa_eng\/xwfw_665399\/s2510_665401\/2511_665403\/t1917497.shtml\">told<\/a> reporters on Thursday, according to an official government transcript of his press conference, \u201csending gravely wrong signals to the \u2018Taiwan independence\u2019 forces and threatening cross-Strait peace and stability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who forget their heritage, betray their motherland, and seek to split the country will come to no good end,\u201d Wang said of the Taiwanese government.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwanese Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng asserted following the publication of the Tsai interview that Taipei and Washington only had \u201cmilitary exchanges\u201d that have resulted in \u201cseveral of their people,\u201d meaning U.S. forces, being present in America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a garrison,\u201d Chiu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3154038\/beijing-pushes-back-us-troops-taiwan-no-sudden-move-expected\">asserted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese government officials regularly threaten violence against Taiwan, in addition to the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) regularly threatening Taiwanese airspace. Dictator Xi Jinping offered a particularly gory warning to the Taiwanese, as well as all enemies of communism, in a speech in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone who attempts to split any region from China will perish, with their bodies smashed and bones ground to powder,\u201d Xi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2019\/10\/14\/bones-ground-to-powder-xi-jinping-threatens-gruesome-death-for-hong-kong-taiwan\/\">said<\/a> during a speech in Nepal.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1635278877327000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHucAEncaPt08O-kGmpFVa4vKUCPg\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1635278877327000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFAUIF5O75kDl0Ko-EssY4ypyLEPA\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s government-run media have responded to President Tsai Ing-wen\u2019s revelation of an American military presence in Taiwan explosively, warning on Thursday that those troops could \u201ctrigger a war.\u201d An alleged &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}