{"id":42838,"date":"2019-01-16T13:40:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T18:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42838"},"modified":"2019-01-16T13:40:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T18:40:54","slug":"china-to-us-navy-chief-army-will-defend-taiwan-claims-at-any-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42838","title":{"rendered":"China To US Navy Chief: Army\u00a0Will\u00a0Defend Taiwan Claims “At Any Cost”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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China To US Navy Chief: Army\u00a0Will\u00a0Defend Taiwan Claims “At Any Cost”<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

A rare\u00a0and under-reported tense exchange occurred between US and Chinese military commanders in Beijing on Tuesday. A high level Chinese military official,\u00a0General Li Zuocheng, told\u00a0the\u00a0head of the United States Navy,\u00a0Admiral John Richardson, in a face to face meeting that <\/span>Beijing would defend its claim to Taiwan “at any cost”<\/strong>. “The Taiwan issue is an internal matter of China, concerns China’s fundamental interests and the national feelings of the Chinese people, and <\/span>no outside interference will be tolerated<\/strong>,” Li Zuocheng said in a statement released by the Ministry of Defense, cited by <\/span>the AFP<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Admiral John Richardson traveled to China for talks aimed at reducing “risk and miscalculation”.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

After a series of recent instances involving\u00a0US Navy warships making provocative passages through the Taiwan Strait\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/em>which the US says is its right according to freedom to navigate international waters, it appears China is going “gloves off” in direct statements challenging US military commanders.<\/p>\n

Gen. Zuocheng, who is a powerful member of the Central Military Commission further told the US Navy chief<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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If anyone wants to separate Taiwan from China, the Chinese army will defend the unity of the motherland at any cost<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Alarmingly this comes after President\u00a0Xi Jinping\u00a0provoked an angry rebuke from Taiwan’s pro-independence president\u00a0when he demanded during a landmark speech on Jan. 2 <\/a>\u00a0that Taiwan submit to “reunification” with Beijing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And in a follow-up speech days after this before military officials, Xi took his belligerent rhetoric one step further by issuing his first military command of 2019: that “all military units must correctly understand major national security and development trends, and strengthen their sense of unexpected hardship, crisis and battle.”\u00a0Xi had essentially ordered the Chinese military to\u00a0prepare for war as his first act of 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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China To US Navy Chief: Army\u00a0Will\u00a0Defend Taiwan Claims “At Any Cost” A rare\u00a0and under-reported tense exchange occurred between US and Chinese military commanders in Beijing on Tuesday. A high level Chinese military official,\u00a0General Li Zuocheng, told\u00a0the\u00a0head of the United States Navy,\u00a0Admiral John Richardson, in a face to face meeting that Beijing would defend its claim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23991,2045,130,23990,1442,23989,1127,4318],"class_list":["post-42838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-admiral-john-richardson","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-general-li-zuocheng","tag-taiwan","tag-united-statea","tag-us-navy","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42839,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42838\/revisions\/42839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}