Talks between the leaders of China and the US were good for peace in Asia-Pacific, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said, underscoring how tensions in the region have eased in recent weeks.
“The kinds of messages coming from the United States this time, we feel rather comfortable about the meetings,” Wu said Tuesday at a briefing in Taipei before island-wide elections.
In their first in-person meeting since the Covid-19 pandemic began, Xi and Biden agreed to a series of gestures aimed at improving ties. The leaders of the world’s two biggest economies said they would also resume talks on issues including climate change and economic stability. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan had promised the US would brief Taiwan on the Xi-Biden meeting.
Even before those exercises, China had been ramping up military, economic and diplomatic pressure on Taiwan. In November last year, Beijing said it was sanctioning top officials in Taipei including Wu, accusing them of “fanning up hostility across the Taiwan Strait.” Beijing has also been alarmed at Biden’s repeated comments that the US would militarily defend Taiwan in case of attack, an apparent shift in policy after decades of what was called “strategic ambiguity.” Biden officials have said the American approach remains unchanged and accuse China of changing policy by ramping up military exercises.
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