Response to the presence of Chinese military aircraft in the airspace of the Taiwan Strait for several days, the U.S. said the commitment to Taiwan is “rock solid”

State Department spokesman Price: U.S. commitment to Taiwan ‘rock-solid’

The United States on Wednesday (April 7) responded to recent Chinese military activities in the Taiwan Strait, noting with “great concern” that the Communist Party is conducting “threatening behavior” in the region. At a regular briefing, State Department spokesman Price reiterated that the U.S. commitment to Taiwan is “rock-solid. (By Derek Fong)

Price noted, “We are aware of and concerned about China’s continued threatening behavior in the region in recent days.” Price added, “Under the Taiwan Relations Act, the United States shall maintain the strength to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion that would endanger the security of the people or the social or economic system of Taiwan.”

Recently the Chinese Communist Party has been engaged in frequent military activity around Taiwan, with a formation of the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning conducting training around the Taiwan Strait and the Communist Party sending military aircraft into Taiwan’s southwest airspace on Monday and Wednesday.

In response to the Chinese Communist Party’s activities, the U.S. Navy sent the guided missile destroyer USS McCain through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday on a routine basis in accordance with international law to demonstrate the U.S. commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific region.

Zhang Chunhui, spokesman for the PLA’s eastern theater of operations, said the Chinese Communist Party tracked and monitored the McCain throughout the trip, criticizing the U.S. ship for sending “wrong signals” to Taiwan independence and for “deliberately interfering with and undermining the regional situation and jeopardizing peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.

Asked if the McCain’s action was in response to the Liaoning’s training, the Defense Department reiterated that the U.S. enforces freedom of navigation around the world and does not respond in this way to specific incidents or specific actions by another country.

Taiwan Foreign Minister Wu Chiu-sup said Wednesday that if the Chinese Communist Party attacks, Taiwan will fight to the end.

In addition, Yu Mao-chun, a professor at the U.S. Naval Academy and one of the key think tanks on China policy under former U.S. President Donald Trump, pointed out in an exclusive interview with our Mandarin group that he thinks the U.S. should abandon its strategic ambiguity on the cross-strait issue because he believes that the U.S. gives the CCP a very vague statement, which fuels the CCP’s aggressive ambitions. So he said he thinks the strategic ambiguity is very unnecessary and the U.S. should carry out strategic clarity.