{"id":9887,"date":"2022-08-10T16:24:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T16:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=9887"},"modified":"2022-08-10T16:24:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T16:24:54","slug":"uk-summons-chinese-ambassador-over-taiwan-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/uk-summons-chinese-ambassador-over-taiwan-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"UK summons Chinese ambassador over Taiwan actions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">UK summons Chinese ambassador over Taiwan actions. The UK on Wednesday summoned China s ambassador demanding he explain Beijing s &#8220;aggressive behaviour&#8221; and &#8220;escalation&#8221; of actions targeted at Taiwan in recent days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, the favourite to become the UK s next prime minister, said she had called in ambassador <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmbZhengZeguang\">Zheng Zeguang<\/a> to explain Chinese missile launches and incursions into Taiwanese air space.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Taiwan is an inseparable part of China&#39;s territory. No foreign country, UK included, has the right to meddle with the internal affairs of China. What UK should do is to follow through its pledge on the one-China principle and rectify any behaviour which is to the contrary.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chinese Embassy in UK (@ChineseEmbinUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChineseEmbinUK\/status\/1557348918714851328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The military drills followed a visit by US House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi to the island last week.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/china-scraps-cooperation-with-us-over-taiwan-spat.html\">China scraps cooperation with US over Taiwan spat<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;The UK and partners have condemned in the strongest terms China s escalation in the region around Taiwan, as seen through our recent G7 statement,&#8221; Truss said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;I instructed officials to summon the Chinese ambassador to explain his country\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;We have seen increasingly aggressive behaviour and rhetoric from Beijing in recent months, which threaten peace and stability in the region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Relations between China and the UK have soured in recent years, particularly over London s condemnation of the treatment by Beijing of Muslim Uighurs and pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>China said it was ending cooperation with the United States on key issues including climate change \u2014 a move Washington decried as \u201cfundamentally irresponsible\u201d as relations between the two superpowers nosedive over Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>The damaging rift, which carries significant geostrategic risk, was triggered by Chinese fury over a visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its territory and has vowed to retake \u2014 by force if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>It has since Thursday encircled the self-ruled, democratic island with a series of huge military drills that have been roundly condemned by the United States and other Western allies.<\/p>\n<p>And Friday saw China s foreign ministry hit back further against the United States, suspending talks and cooperation on multiple agreements \u2014 including on climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK summons Chinese ambassador over Taiwan actions. The UK on Wednesday summoned China s ambassador demanding he explain Beijing s &#8220;aggressive behaviour&#8221; and &#8220;escalation&#8221; of actions targeted at Taiwan in recent days. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, the favourite to become the UK s next prime minister, said she had called in ambassador Zheng Zeguang to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[470,1958,855,875],"class_list":["post-9887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-china","tag-taiwan","tag-uk","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}