Taiwan has called for the island to increase its vigilance on China’s military and security activities in response to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine crisis, to which China’s foreign minister has said that Taiwan is “not Ukraine.”
China’s foreign ministry said that Taiwan has always been an inalienable part of China.
It comes as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson highlighted a new risk for Taiwan. Johnson said that if Western nations failed to fulfill their promises to support the independence of Ukraine from Russia, there will be damaging consequences around the world, including for Taiwan.
China has claimed self-governing Taiwan as its own, and over the past two years, has increased its military activity near the island. Taiwan has reported that there have been no maneuvers by Chinese forces that could be labeled as “unusual” yet during the spike of Ukraine tensions.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying dismissed the link between the international issues. She said that it is an “indisputable legal and historical fact” that Taiwan has always been an inalienable part of China.
Taiwan’s autonomy has been an issue left over from the civil war. Hua added that China’s integrity should never have been, and has never been, compromised. When the Republic of China government was defeated, it fled to Taiwan in 1949, after losing to the Communists. The Communists set up the People’s Republic of China.
Taiwan opposes to the strongest degree China’s territorial claims. Taiwan says it is an independent state and should be called the official name of the Republic of China.
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen called for all security and military units to raise surveillance and early warning of military development around the Taiwan Strait. Tsai said the remarks during a working group of the National Security Council that was meeting about the Ukraine crisis.
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