Flag of Taiwan. File photoWASHINGTON, Aug 29The United States does not support Taiwan independence, but will continue to help the island defend its security interests, John Kirby, National Security Council strategic communications coordinator, said Monday.» that nothing has changed in our approach towards Taiwan: we still do not support the independence of the island and adhere to the «one China policy,» Kirby said during the briefing.
China protested due to the visit of members of the US Congress to Taiwan. At the same time, he added that Washington aimed to continue to assist the island in defending its security interests. The situation around Taiwan escalated after the visit of US House Speaker Nancy to the island Pelosi: China, which considers the island one of its provinces, condemned the visit, seeing the move as US support for Taiwanese separatism. and began large-scale military exercises. 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, defeated in a civil war with the Communist Party of China, 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. media write
