Representative cautions of 'tinderbox' in danger of beginning US-China war

CHINA 29 JANUARY 2022 (VOE WORLD) China's envoy to the US has cautioned that Beijing and Washington are probable bound for war assuming the last option urges Taiwan to look for autonomy, depicting Taipei as the "greatest tinderbox" in the connection between the nations.

"If the Taiwanese specialists, encouraged by the United States, continue onward in the distance for autonomy, it probably will include China and the United States, the two major nations, in a tactical clash," diplomat Qin Gang said in a radio meeting with NPR that was communicated on Friday.

The remarks came in Qin's initial one-on-one meeting with an American news source since he accepted his post in Washington last July. What's more as state-financed NPR noticed, his admonition was curiously gruff for Chinese authorities, who ordinarily talk about possible flashpoints in the US-China relationship in less immediate terms. For example, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi recently told his US partner, Antony Blinken, that Washington must "quit behaving recklessly on the issue of Taiwan."

"Allow me to stress this," diplomat Qin told NPR. "The Taiwan issue is the greatest tinderbox among China and the United States." He said China considers Taiwan its "holy" region, and Beijing saves the choice to reunify through power assuming that the Taiwanese government officially announces autonomy.

Qin demanded that China's administration doesn't wish to assault Taiwan. "Individuals on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are Chinese, so we are comrades. So the last thing we ought to do is to battle with comrades, and we will do our most extreme in the best genuineness to accomplish a serene reunification."

Washington's true position on the issue is that it stays focused on the "One China" strategy, meaning it doesn't perceive Taiwan as a sovereign country. Be that as it may, as a Pentagon official said in declaration to Congress last year, the US accepts China has plans to take Taiwan forcibly and sees supporting Taipei's safeguards as an "dire assignment."