Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe today accused the US of being a “bully” and “hijacking” countries around the region, and said Beijing would “fight to the very end” to stop Taiwanese independence.<\/p>\n
He made the remarks while addressing the ongoing 19th Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Asia’s premier defence summit.<\/p>\n
On a question regarding Taiwan, Wei said that “Taiwan is part of China, and the Taiwan question is China’s internal affair”, reports Xinhua news agency.<\/p>\n
“China will definitely realise its reunification.”<\/p>\n
Those who pursue “Taiwan independence in an attempt to split China will definitely come to no good end, and foreign interference is doomed to failure”, he said.<\/p>\n
“If anyone dares to secede Taiwan from China, we will not hesitate to fight, we will fight at all costs,” Wei added.<\/p>\n
The Minister’s remarks, which came just weeks after US President Joe Biden said Washington would respond “militarily’ if China attacked Taiwan, capped a weekend of confrontational exchanges between the American and Chinese military chiefs, CNN reported.<\/p>\n
Wei also called out US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who had told the Summit a day earlier that China was engaged in coercive, aggressive and dangerous actions that threatened to “undermine security, stability and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific”.<\/p>\n
Austin had also talked about US coalition-building in the region and its joint military exercises with Japan, Australia, India and Indonesia, but Wei said this was a kind of “power politics” that China rejected.<\/p>\n
“No one and no country should impose its will on others, or bully others under the guise of multilateralism. We notice Secretary Austin’s remarks on the US Indo-Pacific strategy.<\/p>\n
“To us, the strategy is an attempt to build an exclusive, small group in the name of a free and open Indo-Pacific, to hijack countries in our region and target one specific country. It is a strategy to create conflict,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe today accused the US of being a “bully” and “hijacking” countries around the region, and said Beijing would “fight to the very end” to stop Taiwanese independence. He made the remarks while addressing the ongoing 19th Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Asia’s premier defence summit. On a question regarding Taiwan, Wei […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-main-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18162,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18161\/revisions\/18162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}