BEIJING, 18 Sep. The United States constantly makes provocations, violates peace and stability, and also creates security risks in the Taiwan Strait, Shi Yi Shi Yi, spokesman for the Eastern Combat Command of the People's Liberation Army of China, said on Saturday that a missile destroyer USS Barry, PLA Eastern Combat Command has organized tracking and escorting of the ship along its entire route through the strait.
«The United States is constantly committing such provocative actions, this fully demonstrates that the United States is a violator of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, creating security risks,» Shi Yi said in a statement published on the PLA's official Eastern Combat Command account in social networks WeChat.
He stressed that the Chinese military is ready to resolutely defend national sovereignty and security, as well as regional peace and stability.
Australia called on Beijing for dialogue after the formation of the AUKUS alliance Official relations between the central government of the PRC and its island province were interrupted in 1949, after the Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek, which were defeated in the civil war with the Chinese Communist Party, moved to Taiwan. Business and informal contacts between the island and mainland China resumed in the late 1980s. Since the early 1990s, the parties began to contact through non-governmental organizations — the Beijing Association for the Development of Relations across the Taiwan Strait and the Taipei Strait Exchange Fund.