China warned the United States on Monday of potential “serious damage” to their relations if it does not withdraw from an upcoming economic meeting with Taiwan that is expected to be attended by a senior American official.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin urged the U.S. at a daily briefing to “stop all forms of official exchanges with Taiwan, so as to avoid serious damage to China-U.S. relations and peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.”

Taiwanese media reported that U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Keith Krach is planning to visit the island later this week for an economic and commercial dialogue with Taiwan’s government.

The visit would follow one by U.S. Health Secretary Alex Azar last month. Azar was the highest-level U.S. Cabinet official to visit since a break in formal ties between the U.S. and Taiwanese government in 1979, when the U.S. accepted a “one-China policy” with Beijing as its government.

A visit by Krach is likely to inspire further anger from China. China considers self-ruled Taiwan part of its own territory, and strongly opposes any official contacts between other nations and the island.

Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed last week that it was in negotiations with the U.S. on such talks, but did not comment on a specific date or who might attend from Washington.

Tensions are high between the U.S. and China over issues including trade, cybersecurity, technology and Hong Kong’s new national security law. Relations have deteriorated further since the coronavirus outbreak. Trump blames China for the pandemic, and he and his administration have repeatedly accused the country of hiding crucial information about the virus from the global community.

Source: https://apnews.com/e54171bc4d2a4f0f93f0d3722a7c4f1e

I thank God for giving me the grace to be the first to comment

On another notice This would be a very interesting drama to watch. China vs USA&Taiwan

The truth is that the US feels threatened by China's growing influence in the world, and that is why they want to curtail it at all costs.

ValCon888:
The truth is that the US feels threatened by China's growing influence in the world, and that is why they want to curtail it at all costs.

very true

ValCon888:
The truth is that the US feels threatened by China's growing influence in the world, and that is why they want to curtail it at all costs.

When China open relations and an Embassy with other countries they force that country to end all relations with Taiwan. Really nasty stuff.

ValCon888:
The truth is that the US feels threatened by China's growing influence in the world, and that is why they want to curtail it at all costs.

You beat me to it.

They simply want to cause discord between Taiwan and mainland China.

DiegoMaria:
I thank God for giving me the grace to be the first to comment

And you couldn't use that grace to succinctly advise China to back off

Goahead:
And you couldn't use that grace to succinctly advise China to back off

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You go ahead and stop them

This is election period Trumph wants to trick china to a trap so he could wipe them out of the earth.

China threatens Australia, Czech republic and now USA because of Taiwan that rejects any form of unity between them.

Says

ValCon888:
The truth is that the US feels threatened by China's growing influence in the world, and that is why they want to curtail it at all costs.

So China should determine who does what?

Who has warned them in their economic plans in Africa before?

China , Taiwan are brothers....

Strange to see anyone still has sympathies left for China after hiding serious information on Covid that could have saved thousands of life. Most normal countries and Nigeria should not find themselves in situations where china will hoard the PPEs for itself before the world even learn how dangerous Covid is.

I guess trump already knows a war with China is inevitable if he continues down this path.

USA and incursion.. will they allow China to have such talk with Puerto Rico or Bahamas ?

It is normal for the US to want to behave this way, especially since their relationship with China has been going south in recent years... let's us also not forget that the Taiwanese people are comfortable with the status-quo and are not buying into China's one-nation policy.