China - US tensions | Ipse by Context

Christopher Heurlin

Inserted 1 year ago

“It's fairly clear that Xi Jinping views his most important legacy as making China a superpower, as returning China to what he sees as its historically rightful place as a world power. And that means economic growth, but it also means becoming a military power that's able to exert a large influence on politics in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. For the US, focusing on competition with China is one of the few things that unites Republicans and Democrats. There's definitely a desire to preserve America's superpower status and its influence in the world order, which does mean that these two countries do have conflicting objectives to a certain extent. So, there is certainly potential for tensions at the very least.”

Aljazeera

Associate professor of government and Asian studies at Bowdoin College in the US state of Maine

26 May 2022 6 4

Jin Canrong

Inserted 2 years ago

“The US is getting nervous about the latest development in the Taiwan Straits as it has seen the strong determination and strength of the Chinese mainland to solve the Taiwan question, and it might not be able to keep the Taiwan card in its hands anymore. So it wants to internationalize the Taiwan question, to transfer the matter from China's internal affairs to an 'international issue,' so that it could create more trouble to the process of the reunification of China.”

Globaltimes

Associate dean of the Renmin University of China's School of International Studies

27 Oct 2021 5 5

António Guterres

Inserted 2 years ago

“Unfortunately, today we only have confrontation. We need to re-establish a functional relationship between the two powers. [The relations is] essential to address the problems of vaccination, the problems of climate change and many other global challenges that cannot be solved without constructive relations within the international community and mainly among the superpowers. We need to avoid at all cost a cold war that would be different from the past one, and probably more dangerous and more difficult to manage.”

Taipeitimes

Secretary-general of the United Nations

18 Sep 2021 5 4

Zhongping Song

Inserted 2 years ago

“The US warship's transit through the Taiwan Straits is about sending a provocative message, and to encourage Taiwan secessionism, but the US military is not ready for a war with the PLA. So the PLA's [People's Liberation Army] action in the region is not just targeting any specific move made by the US, because the US' intention is clear, and what the PLA is doing is about preparing for the worst case scenario - an all-out military intervention made by US and its allies, and only by doing so, the PLA will be able to defeat all kinds of enemies, especially the foreign interventionist forces, when China launches an operation to reunify Taiwan with the mainland. There is no secret that the military exercises the PLA has conducted around Taiwan are targeting secessionist forces on the island and any foreign forces that support them. We can openly tell them that we are treating them as simulated enemies during those relevant military exercises.”

Globaltimes

Chinese mainland military expert and TV commentator

18 Sep 2021 9 7

Kamala Harris

Inserted 2 years ago

“We know that Beijing continues to coerce, to intimidate and to make claims to the vast majority of the South China Sea. Beijing's actions continue to undermine the rules-based order and threaten the sovereignty of nations. The United States stands with our allies and partners in the face of these threats.”

Aljazeera

US Vice President

24 Aug 2021 2 5

Xie Feng

Inserted 2 years ago

“US-China relations are in a standstill and face serious difficulties. The United States wants to reignite the sense of national purpose by establishing China as an 'imaginary enemy'.”

Aljazeera

China’s Vice Foreign Minister

26 Jul 2021 2 2

Sang-woo Kim

Inserted 2 years ago

“Speaking at Tiananmen Square, Xi [Xi Jinping] laid out a vision of China's future that was self-congratulatory, triumphant and aggressive. In short, the speech was aimed at forging unity within, ensuring 'the party forever,' and advancing China's power abroad. Xi's emphasis on nationalism, recovering 'lost territories,' and remolding the international order suggest tensions with the U.S. and its allies will continue. After a century, the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] has made a strategic mistake and played its hand too early, revealing the game and the true nature of the party.”

Koreatimes

Chairman of the East Asia Cultural Project and member of the board of directors at the Kim Dae-jung Peace Foundation

21 Jul 2021 4 5

Antony Blinken

Inserted 3 years ago

“There’s no doubt that China poses the most significant challenge to us of any other country, but it’s a complicated one. There are adversarial aspects to the relationship, there’s certainly competitive ones, and there’s still some cooperative ones, too. But whether we’re dealing with any of those aspects of the relationship, we have to be able to approach China from a position of strength, not weakness. And that strength, I think, comes from having strong alliances, something China does not have; actually engaging in the world and showing up in these international institutions, because we when pull back, China fills in and then they’re the ones writing the rules and setting the norms of these institutions; standing up for our values when China is challenging them, including in Xinjiang against the Uyghurs or democracy in Hong Kong; making sure that our military is postured so that it can deter Chinese aggression; and investing in our own people so that they can fully compete.”

State

U.S. Secretary of State

01 Feb 2021 4 4

Xu Guixiang

Inserted 3 years ago

“The press conference [of Mike Pompeo] was meant to hammer the last nail into the coffin of the poisonous political legacy of Pompeo, who takes pride in lying, cheating and stealing and has been acting like a mad dog barking nonsense while attacking Xinjiang in his last days in office. The accusations [of crimes against humanity and genocide] were totally sinister lies, as the fact is the population of ethnic minorities, including Uygurs, has been increasing consistently. Is there any place around the world that could bring about this rocketing increase in a population after so-called 'genocide?'”

Globaltimes

Vice minister of the publicity department of the Xinjiang government

20 Jan 2021 5 5

Hua Chunying

Inserted 3 years ago

“The severe damage to China-US relations over the past four years was caused precisely because the Trump administration made fundamental mistakes in its strategic perception of China. The Trump administration viewed China as its biggest strategic competitor, or enemy, leading to various means to interfere in China’s internal affairs and every effort to suppress, slander and smear China. I think the new administration should serve the wishes of the people, view China in a rational and objective light, and work with China on the basis of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit to put China-US relations back on the track of healthy and stable development as soon as possible.”

Aljazeera

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson

20 Jan 2021 3 6

Mike Pompeo

Inserted 3 years ago

“While the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] has always exhibited a profound hostility to all people of faith, we have watched with growing alarm the Party’s increasingly repressive treatment of the Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minority groups. If the Chinese Communist Party is allowed to commit genocide and crimes against humanity against its own people, imagine what it will be emboldened to do to the free world, in the not-so-distant future.”

Thehill

U.S. Secretary of State

19 Jan 2021 2 3

Lijian Zhao

Inserted 3 years ago

“The Chinese people’s resolve to defend our sovereignty and territorial integrity is unshakable and we will not permit any person or force to stop the process of China’s re-unification. Any actions which harm China’s core interests will be met with a firm counterattack and will not succeed.”

Reuters

Spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry

11 Jan 2021 3 7

Chun-shan Chao

Inserted 3 years ago

“The US would not change its policy for 'strategic ambiguity' on Taiwan, while the US and China would continue to have confrontations and cooperation, as in trade matter. The key for Taiwan is to avoid becoming embroiled in US-China conflicts, while striving for inclusion on issues where the two sides cooperate.”

Taipeitimes

Professor emeritus at the Institute of China Studies at Tamkang University

05 Nov 2020 3 4

Hua Chunying

Inserted 3 years ago

“The US is really good at implementing the 'Attack China' strategy, but really bad at facing up to the reality and handling the COVID-19 pandemic. If the US is truly ruled by law, why do the American people still suffer from excessive police enforcement, gun violence and mass shootings? Why does it maliciously repress Chinese private companies in the name of national security? If the #US is truly democratic, why does it ignore the voice of the majority of its people and watch over 230,000 Americans die from #COVID19 without taking effective measures? If the US is truly free, why did George Floyd cry 'I can't breathe'? Why is Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' still a dream?”

Globaltimes

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson

02 Nov 2020 8 2

Zhongping Song

Inserted 3 years ago

“The US missiles could bring some threats to the PLA if war breaks out between the two sides of the Taiwan Straits, so this is more proof that the US has violated its promises made in the three joint communiques with the People's Republic of China to gradually reduce its arms sales to Taiwan. The threat that these Harpoon missiles poses to the PLA is very limited, as they are high subsonic missiles designed in the 1980s, and the current self-defense and anti-missile facilities installed by the PLA on its vessels and land-based bases can shoot them down easily. The US has a more advanced anti-ship missile with stealth capability, but it won't sell it to Taiwan, so the latest announced sale is another expensive deal aimed at taking Taiwan taxpayers' money with low-quality weapons, in other words, the US is still treating the island as a 'cash machine'.”

Globaltimes

Hong Kong-based military commentator

26 Oct 2020 6 4

Wang Wenbin

Inserted 3 years ago

“China will take legitimate and necessary measures to safeguard its sovereignty and security interests with firm determination. The move has interfered in China's internal affairs, seriously damaged China's sovereignty and security interests, and sent wrong signals to Taiwan secessionists, and has seriously harmed China-US relations and the peace and stability across the Taiwan Straits.”

Globaltimes

Spokesperson of China and deputy director of the Foreign Ministry Information Department of China

26 Oct 2020 5 4

Zhang Chunhui

Inserted 3 years ago

“We sternly urge the US to stop making provocative statements and moves. The command forces are always on high alert and will resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as peace and stability in the Taiwan Straits.”

Globaltimes

Senior Colonel and spokesperson of the PLA Eastern Theater Command

15 Oct 2020 5 5

Kevin Lai

Inserted 3 years ago

“Trump and Biden have more in common than meets the eye. There has been a sea change in sentiment in the US among both Republicans and Democrats. Whoever wins the election, one thing is clear: the US has turned a corner in its relations with China and looks set to maintain a hard line on many aspects, including trade. They may differ in other areas, but when it comes to China, Donald Trump and Joe Biden are more or less on the same page.”

Aljazeera

Chief economist for Asia excluding Japan at Daiwa Capital Markets

12 Oct 2020 6 5

Christopher Sands

Inserted 3 years ago

“The whole U.S. establishment seems to have shifted, very sharply, against China. There has been almost a Cold War reflex - a sense [we in the U.S. are] fighting on behalf of everyone, because a peaceful [Chinese] rise didn't pan out and confrontation is necessary to force China to change the way it behaves.”

Cbc

Head of Washington's Canada Institute

08 Oct 2020 2 4

David Stilwell

Inserted 3 years ago

“A few months ago, as the world was coming to grips with the reality of the global pandemic, one of China’s leading virologists warned that the coronavirus was “just the tip of the iceberg.” She was speaking as an epidemiologist and urging a global response to prevent future outbreaks, but that analogy is a useful way to think about CCP aggression and malign activities globally. For each visible example of CCP malign activity worldwide, there are many more lurking beneath the surface. Part of our job in the Department, and especially in the EAP Bureau, is to help bring more of that iceberg into the open for other nations to see the CCP for what it truly is – an aggressive, autocratic, ambitious, paranoid, hostile threat to free and open societies and the free and open international order.”

Foreign

US Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs

17 Sep 2020 3 5

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“US-China relations are in a standstill and face serious difficulties. The United States wants to reignite the sense of national purpose by establishing China as an 'imaginary enemy'.”

“We sternly urge the US to stop making provocative statements and moves. The command forces are always on high alert and will resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as peace and stability in the Taiwan Straits.”

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