Any Chinese military action in response to stopovers in the U.S. by Taiwan Vice President William Lai would be an attempt by China to interfere in the island's elections, Lai said during a trip to Paraguay.
this week, using Lai's stopovers in the United States as a pretext to intimidate voters ahead of an election next year and make them "fear war".
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday in Paraguay, where he arrived via New York, Lai said such U.S. transits were routine and China had no cause to use them as an excuse to "verbally and militarily intimidate Taiwan", the island's official Central News Agency reported. China has denounced Lai's New York stop - he is due in San Francisco on Wednesday on his way back to Taipei - and said he is a separatist "Both Taiwan and the United States have sought to keep Lai's U.S. stopovers low key, and Lai said there were "no special arrangements" to meet with U.S. officials.
Speaking at a conference in Moscow on Tuesday, Chinese Defence Minister Li Shangfu said "playing with fire on the Taiwan issue and vainly trying to 'control China with Taiwan' is bound to end in failure".
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