A U.S. government executive jet landed at Songshan Airport in a low-key fashion on Sunday evening, once speculated to be a visit from U.S. CIA Director Gina Haspel, but Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry immediately denied the visit. Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry immediately denied the visit. The foreign ministry reported that the visiting official was Michael William Studeman, chief of intelligence of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, but the relevant Taiwanese authorities were reluctant to confirm the visit. Some commentators have analyzed the warming of relations between Taiwan and the United States, and that the U.S. military’s visit may involve a new round of Indo-Pacific strategic layout. The Chinese Foreign Ministry called on the U.S. to handle the Taiwan issue carefully.
Before the C-37 executive jet carrying top U.S. officials arrived in Taiwan on the evening of the 22nd, some media in Taiwan had already received information from the authorities and went to Taipei Songshan Airport to wait and cover the U.S. side’s top-secret trip. However, the government refused to confirm the U.S. official’s visit after the media report was issued.
In response to media inquiries about whether the visit on Sunday was by the chief of intelligence of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Executive Yuan President Su Tseng-chang was very subdued.
The U.S. government’s response to a media inquiry about whether the visit was by a U.S. intelligence officer from the Indo-Pacific Command was very low-key,” Su said.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Ou Jiangan would not confirm the identity of the visiting U.S. officials.
The media reported that U.S. officials arrived in Taiwan aboard the executive jet on the evening of Nov. 22, but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not provide further information or comment on the visit.
The DPP’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee Standing Committee member Chiu Tien-lin said that if the visitor is a naval officer, he guessed that the purpose of his visit to Taiwan is related to the groundbreaking ceremony of the Taiwan-made submarine hosted by Tsai Ing-wen on the 24th.
The first submarine to be built in the U.S. is a submarine that will be built by the U.S. Navy. Especially at this stage, the executive jet, if it is really a senior U.S. military official to come, I think whether he did not show up at the groundbreaking ceremony on the 24th, I think it is for us, whether it is the submarine national construction, or the various U.S. military purchase case are a strong heart agent.
The U.S. Navy has been in the process of developing a new submarine, and the U.S. Navy has been working with the U.S. Navy to develop a new submarine.
Zhao Tianlin said: but if it is really him, it is indeed the highest-ranking military exchange official since the passage of the Taiwan Travel Act. In the past, he was a one-star general at best, but this time he’s a two-star general, and he’s playing the most important role. So if it’s true, it’s not surprising that he came with the largest number of U.S. military aircraft patrolling the neighborhood than ever before. But I still want to emphasize that the exchanges between Taiwan and the U.S., including the Taipei bill and the passage of the Taiwan Travel Act, are a very important milestone in normalizing official, mutual visits between the two sides.
KMT chairman and legislator Chiang Kee-chin said that if the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of National Defense are reluctant to confirm, the government should maintain a low profile and it is inappropriate to use this as a “big internal announcement”.
He said that military exchanges between Taiwan and the U.S. have always been carried out, regardless of who is in power, and that they have always existed from the past to the present, but in the past, military exchanges between Taiwan and the U.S. have been relatively low-key and pragmatic. He argued that at this point in time when the U.S. regime change is taking place, the Taiwan authorities should avoid causing or intervening in U.S. internal disputes based on the friendly and sustainable development of U.S.-Taiwan relations.
The official refusal of Taiwan and the U.S. to confirm the identity of the U.S. officials visiting Taiwan, coupled with the secrecy surrounding the trip, has caused great concern.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry responded to the incident on Monday. The Chinese mainland is firmly opposed to any official contacts and military ties between Taiwan and the United States, and will take legitimate and necessary actions in light of the situation, calling on the U.S. side to abide by the “one-China” principle and the provisions of the three joint communiqués of the U.S. and China to deal with the Taiwan issue in a prudent and proper manner.
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