Taiwan said on Wednesday that no Chinese sovereignty can prevail, after declarations of Beijing presenting the waters of the strait like his.
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Words respond, as heavy as the threats of a war, on the Taiwan Strait. Wednesday, June 14, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Taipei accused Beijing of “twisting international law” by saying that the strait separating the island of the continent was part of the exclusive economic zone of China. Declarations which “revealed the [Beijing] ambitions to annex Taiwan”, according to the ministry.
The Taiwanese democratic government was rippling the declarations of the Chinese ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin on Monday. China “has sovereignty, sovereign rights, and a jurisdiction over the Taiwan Strait,” said the latter, adding: “It is wrong to proclaim, as some countries do, that the Strait comes under international waters, in The aim of finding a pretext to manipulate the problems linked to Taiwan. “A warning that the Chinese soldiers have repeated in private to their American counterparts,” on numerous occasions and on all levels in recent months “, according to the Bloomberg agency . Washington has been held since 1954, the date of the first crisis in this maritime passage, like an ally with Taipei, by giving it weapons.
Because it is very wide (180 kilometers), the Taiwan Strait is assimilated to the high seas and does not require rules for ship trafficking: for example that they follow separate lines in one direction and in the other. According to the International Convention on Montego Bay Sea Law, the passage can take place without constraints. “Crossing it is navigation on the high seas, with all the freedoms attached to it,” confirms Collin Koh, researcher of the S. Rajaratman School of International.
repeated military pressure
But since the invasion of Ukraine, the world has been more than ever worried about seeing China, as Russia has just done, embarking on a military adventure to take a territory, Taiwan, that she Said Sien in the name of the principle of “one China”. In its close maritime environment, the Beijing regime claims to ever, by means of repeated military pressures, of the historic rights that the UN has never recognized it. According to the official press, President Xi Jinping has also just legalized “the operations of the armed forces” which do not come under the war, but will be able to “preserve Chinese national sovereignty”.
On May 30, the People’s Liberation Army (APL) sent 30 aircraft in the island’s identification and defense area (large perimeter that exceeds national airspace), including two Sukhoi 35 , Russian bomber hunters that Moscow uses NATO borders. On March 17, the APL had transit its aircraft carrier Shandong into the Strait, an event that had not occurred since the end of 2020.
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