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According to US Treasury Secretary Scott Besent, Donald Trump is confident that Chinese President Xi Jinping will not attack Taiwan during his time in the White House.
Speaking at CNBC, Besent said that Trump was “confident that President Shi would not take this step during his president”. Besent China was responding to a question about whether China would attack Taiwan.
US intelligence officials said that the Shi People’s Liberation said to develop the power to attack the Army Taiwan By 2027, but they emphasized that it does not mean that the 2027 war period is a deadline.
The White House Basent’s claim did not answer any questions about whether it was on any new intelligence.
Over the past few years, tensions on Taiwan have increased significantly, especially in 2022, Nancy Pelosi became the first US house speaker to visit Taiwan in 20 years.
The PLA around Taiwan has expanded the operations quickly. Speaking at the Honolulu Defense Forum last month, Admiral Samuel Pappero, chief of the US Indo-Pacific Command, said practices were no longer training.
“Their offensive techniques around Taiwan are not ‘practice’ right now, as they call them, they are rehearsals. The The Paparo said in response to a question from the Financial Times for the forced consolidation of Taiwan in the mainland.
Basent comments about China and Taiwan have come because Taipei has become nervous that Trump’s position in Ukraine can weaken the United States long support for the Asian country.
During the administration of the Biden, US-China tensions spread because the countries were in loggerheads on various issues related to protection. Testing has focused on trade since Trump took over. The US President imposed 20 percent tariff on import from China.
The White House said the tariffs were made to press Beijing to export material for the deadly OPWeed Fentanil.
It also added that they also had the intention to finish subsidies for groups that sell dual-use chemicals in Mexico cartels and produce smuggled fentanels in the United States.
On Friday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi described Trump as “dual” and said that Beijing would take retaliation from Washington “to react to voluntary pressure”.
Wang said at a press conference, “No country should imagine that it can suppress China and at the same time maintain good relations with China.” “This national bilateral acts are not good for the stability of bilateral relationships or for creating mutual confidence.”
Earlier this week, the Chinese embassy in Washington reported that it was ready to respond to any fight with the United States, including the war. The embassy wrote on the Social Media Platform X, “If the war is what the United States wants it, then it is customs war, trade war or any other kind of war, we are ready to fight at the end,” the Embassy wrote on the Social Media Platform X.
