China must prepare for 'military clash' over Taiwan & 'strike back' at US interference: state paper

[DonViejo]

Source: Newsweek Magazine

CHINA MUST PREPARE FOR 'MILITARY CLASH' OVER TAIWAN AND 'STRIKE BACK' AT U.S. INTERFERENCE, STATE PAPER SAYS

BY CHRISTINA ZHAO ON 3/22/18 AT 10:06 AM

China must “strike back” against U.S. interference over Taiwan and prepare for a “direct military clash,” Beijing state media has said.

On Tuesday, Alex Wong, U.S. deputy assistant secretary at the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, became the first official to visit Taiwan after President Donald Trump signed the Taiwan Travel Act, which allows for and encourages high-level official visits between the two countries.

China strongly condemned the legislation as they have long considered the self-governed island to be a wayward province. During his speech at the National People’s Congress on Tuesday, President Xi Jinping said any attempt at separatism is “doomed to fail” and those involved will face the “punishment of history.

“We must strike back against Washington's implementation of the Taiwan Travel Act,” Global Times, the ruling Communist Party’s official paper, said in an editorial on Thursday. “The mainland must also prepare itself for a direct military clash in the Taiwan Straits. It needs to make clear that escalation of U.S.-Taiwan official exchanges will bring serious consequences to Taiwan."




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[msongs]

1. taiwan's political status is up to taiwanese, not the bullies on the mainland. so is who it chooses

as friends

[NewJeffCT]

2. China makes threats against Taiwan every several years

Clinton sent the 7th fleet to the region and China backed down.

With Trump as president, he'd run away like a coward.