A man walks past Taiwan flags in Taipei. File photoWASHINGTON, Aug 31The United States considers a change in the status quo on Taiwan unacceptable, John Kirby, National Security Council strategic communications coordinator, said on Wednesday. «Changing the status quo is unacceptable,» he said. at a briefing on Wednesday. According to Kirby, Washington does not see the opportunity and the need to change the «one China» policy, and also calls on Beijing to de-escalate tensions around Taiwan. The situation around the island escalated after the visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in early August. China, which considers Taiwan one of its provinces, condemned the visit, seeing the move as US support for local separatism, and held large-scale military exercises. In the war with the Communist Party of China, the Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek 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. begging China to lift its sanctions
