MOSCOW, 18 Aug. State Department spokesman Ned Price said Washington was concerned about the burgeoning security relationship between Moscow and Beijing, with Russian President Vladimir Putin criticizing the United States a day earlier for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's provocative visit to Taiwan. The New York Post writes about this. «The American adventure in relation to Taiwan is not just a trip of an individual irresponsible politician, but part of a purposeful, conscious US strategy to destabilize and chaotic the situation in the region and the world, a brazen demonstration of disrespect for the sovereignty of other countries and for their own international obligations,” the Russian leader stressed, speaking at an international security conference in Moscow. The next day, State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters that the rapprochement between China and Russia on issues of international order and security was alarming in Washington. The situation around Taiwan aggravated after the recent trip of the Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi. She became the highest-ranking US official to visit the island over the past 25 years. Pelosi's visit was the impetus for a new round of tension in the Taiwan Strait. Since August 4, the Chinese army has been conducting exercises off the coast of the island. In addition, Beijing has imposed sanctions against Pelosi herself, her relatives and two Taiwanese funds. The Chinese Foreign Ministry laid responsibility for all the negative consequences of the official's visit on Washington and Taipei. Beijing does not recognize the sovereignty of Taiwan, considers it its province and categorically opposes any contacts between Taipei and officials and military from other countries. ;>
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