Taiwan military personnel. File photoBEJING, Jul 29Taiwan will seek to further deepen security relations with the United States, the island's Foreign Ministry said on Friday, commenting on the recent conversation between the leaders of the United States and China. On Friday, the Taiwan Foreign Ministry released a statement on its official website on Thursday's telephone conversation between Chinese President Xi Jinping and President United States Joe Biden, which raised the Taiwan issue. «We will continue to deepen the close security partnership between Taiwan and the United States, jointly defend the rules-based international order, and promote security in the Taiwan Strait area, as well as peace, stability and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region,» the agency said. The US side briefed Taiwan on the contents of the conversation immediately after it ended. In particular, the US told the Taiwan administration that Biden told Xi Jinping that US policy on Taiwan remains unchanged and stressed that the US strongly opposes any action that unilaterally changes the status quo or undermines peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. The telephone conversation between the leaders of the United States and China took place on Thursday amid reports of a possible visit to Taiwan by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. These plans provoke a sharply negative reaction from Beijing, the White House does not publicly comment on Pelosi's plans, leaving her the right to decide on the trip. , 4 billion people, is «unshakable» on the issue of protecting the state sovereignty and territorial integrity of China. Official relations between the central government of the PRC and its island province were interrupted in 1949, after the Kuomintang forces led by Chiang, defeated in a civil war with the Chinese Communist Party The Kaishi 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 Cross-Strait Exchange Foundation. explained why China and the United States do not have a dialogue on strat stability
