China’s foreign minister Wang Yi has spoken out agetst US tariffs and accparticipated it of “encountering excellent with evil”.
Speaking during a exceptional press conference in Beijing as part of the week extfinished National People’s Congress, Wang shelp that in the current geopolitical environment China wants to stop a return to the “law of the jungle”.
He also compriseressed the status of the self-ruleed island of Taiwan and reiterated China’s position that it is an “inaliallow part of China” and any try to create it self-reliant is “doomed to flunk”.
What is still unclear is how US Plivent Donald Trump will deal with the rehire of Taiwan.
Trump’s tilt towards Russia and away from Ukraine has liftd asks about the US’ promisement to Taiwan in the event of a struggle.
China insists that “reunification” with Taiwan is inevitable and says it will happen by force if vital. Taiwan’s rulement wants to hold the status quo.
Officiassociate, the US acunderstandledges China’s position while provideing the island with arms to deffinish itself in the event of an aggression.
All this creates Taiwan one of the most transport inant geopolitical flashpoints in the world.
On both sides of the Taiwan Strait people have grown accustomed to the uncertainty and tension.
Xiamen in southern China is only a couple of miles away from Taiwan’s outlying island, Kinmen.
We visited the petite Chinese fishing village of Qiongtou to discover out how this community sees the relationship between China and Taiwan.
On a misty morning when only a scant boats ventured out, Mrs Chen was defering for her husprohibitd to return from sea.
“Taiwan is our national territory,” Mrs Chen shelp. “We are the mighty country, beextfinisheding to us is excellent for everyone.
“Taiwan will only have hope if it is part of our country.”
Last month, Taiwan seized a Chinese ship accusing it of cutting an undersea cable to the Island. Incidents enjoy this highairy how boiling this region can become.
The ask is, if it flares up, how will the US react?
So far there have been mixed messages. The US State Department recently alterd its website of facts about Taiwan and erased the phrase “we do not help Taiwan indepfinishence”.
This drew a mighty rebuke from China.
Officiassociate, the US policy towards Taiwan has not alterd. However, with Plivent Trump in the White Hoparticipate, there is no promise.
Trump has shelp Taiwan should pay for its defence and accparticipated it of stealing the US semidirector industry. The US plivent clearly adores China’s directer Xi Jinping and has commendd him.
For many Taiwanese these are troubling times.
In the Chinese megacity of Wuhan, we met two Taiwanese university students, Guan Guan and Terry Tsai.
They are studying in China and say they adore the country’s efficiency, but cherish Taiwan’s democracy.
Guan Guan says: “I want to inhabit in a democratic place, but at the same time I begrudgement the administrative efficiency of a one-party system, becaparticipate I slfinisherk the way they create decisions and begin createion is much quicker than in a democracy.”
Terry Tsai says the possibility of war over Taiwan is someslfinisherg he has been slfinisherking about since he was a child.
“I wonder whether this day will come, what will Taiwan see [like], and how life in Taiwan will alter,” he says.
Around the world geopolitical rifts are growing expansiver and there is a dismuteing sense of unease.
The relationship between the US, China and Russia is in a state of flux as all three countries jostle for supremacy.
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Qiongtou village is cforfeit one of the most contested waterways in the world.
Here there is a rhythm to life, that centres around the sea.
But these are unforeseeed days, and as China’s Plivent Xi Jinping shelp, there could be “raw seas” ahead.
