BEIJING– There is an increasing wariness of U.S. declares to acknowledge Beijing as the sole legal federal government of China, a retired officer of the People’s Liberation Army informed CNBC on Monday.
His remarks followed U.S. President Joe Biden consistently suggested the U.S. would protect Taiwan militarily if the island is assaulted, just to have the White House reject a shift in a decades-long “one China policy.”
“We believe he is actually paying lip service to this one China policy,” stated Zhou Bo, now a senior fellow at Tsinghua University’s Center for International Strategy and Security Studies.
Zhou did not define who “we” described in his reaction to a concern on CNBC’s “Street Signs Asia” about how Beijing saw the back-and-forth over Biden’s remarks.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden provides remarks at the Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&& amp; ED) at the State Department in Washington, U.S. June 23, 2015.
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Taiwan is a democratically self-ruled island that Beijing thinks about part of its area. Beijing has actually preserved it looks for tranquil reunification with Taiwan.
During the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore over the weekend, China’s Defense Minister Wei Fenghe preserved that Beijing would accomplish reunification and cautioned those pursuing Taiwan self-reliance would “pertain to no great end.”
A day previously, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin implicated China of “intriguing, destabilizing” military activity near to Taiwan.
For more than 40 years, the U.S. “one China policy” has actually acknowledged Beijing as the sole legal federal government ofChina Meanwhile, the U.S. preserves informal relations with Taiwan, with a policy of making certain the island has the resources to protect itself.
Given current media reports about U.S. help to Taiwan, Zhou stated, “How could we have rely on the one China policy?”
— CNBC’s Ravi Buddhavarapu added to this report.
