Research, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA
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The US Ambassador to China supports Taiwan! Call on Congress to help Taiwan defend herself
Burns, the nominee of the US ambassador to China, attended the Senate personnel hearing today. He is concerned about CCP China's recent actions against Taiwan and agrees with the US's unilateral actions against undermining the status quo and stability of the Indo-Pacific. It is believed that both the executive branch and the Congress should assist Taiwan in self-defense.
The Senate Foreign Affairs Committee held a personnel hearing today and invited Nicholas Burns, the nominator of the US ambassador to mainland China, Rahm Emanuel, the nominator of the ambassador to Japan, and Jonathan Eric Kaplan, the nominator of the ambassador to Singapore attend to testify.
In his opening testimony, Burns quoted U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken as saying that "the mainland (CCP China) is (the U.S.) the greatest geopolitical test in the 21st century" in emerging technology fields but it will cooperate with CCP when it is in the interests of the United States, such as in the fields of climate change, global health and denuclearization.
Burns also criticized the CCP for a series of issues, including genocide in Xinjiang, human rights violations in Tibet, stifling Hong Kong's autonomy and freedom, and bullying Taiwan. He stated that these injustices must stop.
Since October 2021, Beijing (CCP centre of power) has dispatched more than 150 sorties to disrupt Taiwan, and Burns is also particularly concerned about this matter. He said that the CCP's recent actions against Taiwan are particularly objectionable. He agrees that the United States continues to follow the "One China Policy", supports the peaceful settlement of disputes, and opposes unilateral actions that undermine the status quo and stability of the Indo-Pacific region.
Burns also called on the US executive branch and Congress to follow the "Taiwan Relations Act" and help Taiwan maintain sufficient self-defense capabilities.
Burns is 65 years old and entered the American diplomatic circle as early as the 1980s. He has considerable diplomatic qualifications. He served as the Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs and the U.S. Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) during the era of former President George W. Bush. Prior to this, he served as the US ambassador to Greece and spokesperson for the State Department.
Previously the US ambassador to China was mostly a politician, and Burns was one of the few professional diplomats nominated for this important post. According to the nomination process of the US ambassador, after the relevant committee holds a personnel hearing, it will select a day to vote on the nomination. After the committee is passed, it will be sent to the whole house of the Senate for trial, and it will be passed if it is supported by more than half of the senators. (Central News Agency)
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Taiwan was invited to the White House Democracy Summit, Hsiao will speak on behalf of the Chinese government
Reporter : Wu Shaoyu
Image: Representative Xiao Meiqin in the United States. (Photo/Retrieved from Facebook Bi-khim Hsiao)
The U.S. State Department announced that Taiwan will participate in the "Summit for Democracy" (Summit for Democracy) video conference related topics hosted by US President Biden. Presidential Office Spokesperson Zhang Dunhan said on 24 November that the Presidential Office would like to thank US President Biden and the US government for inviting Taiwan to participate in the "Democracy Summit." Political commissar Tang Feng of the Executive Yuan and Xiao Meiqin (Bi-khim Hsiao), the representative to the United States, will attend the meeting on behalf of the Chinese government.
Zhang Dunhan said that from the third "Indo-Pacific Democratic Governance Consultation Conference" held in Taiwan and the United States on 15 November to the second "Taiwan-American Conference on Democratic Governance", which ended just on 23 November. "Economic Prosperity Dialogue" (EPPD), and even the upcoming "Democracy Summit" in December, the intensified cooperation and exchanges between Taiwan and the United States in various fields have once again demonstrated the "true friends and real progress" between Taiwan and the United States in recent years and a solid partnership.
Political commissar Tang Feng and representative Hsiao will also share with countries around the world that Taiwan has strengthened government governance through technology and digital democracy, and will convey Taiwan’s firm belief in defending democracy.
Zhang Dunhan emphasized that through this "Democracy Summit", Taiwan will share Taiwan's successful democracy story with other countries in the world. Taiwan will also firmly work with countries with similar ideas to jointly safeguard universal values such as freedom, democracy, and human rights, jointly maintain regional peace, stability, and prosperity and development, and continue to contribute to the international community.
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Uninvited to White House Democracy Summit. Russia and CCP angered: Democracy privatized
U.S. President Biden invited 110 countries including Taiwan to participate in the online democracy summit. CCP China and Russia are not on the list. CCP expressed dissatisfaction with Taiwan’s invitation, and the Kremlin said that the list of summits announced by Washington was "differentiating the good and bad countries they perceive."
Biden put the struggle between democracies and "authoritarian governments" at the core of his foreign policy; Taiwan was invited to participate in the democratic summit, while CCP China was excluded, triggering protests in Beijing.
CCP's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Zhao Lijian claimed on 24 November 2021 that CCP China firmly opposes the US’s invitation to the "Taiwan authorities" to participate in the "Democracy Summit."
Zhao Lijian also said that as for the "Leaders' Democracy Summit," China has stated its position many times that democracy is the common value of all mankind and is not the patent of a few countries, "What the US has done just proves that the so-called democracy is just a cover, a tool used by the US to advance its geostrategic goals, suppress other countries, divide the world, serve itself, and seek personal gain."
Russia, which was also uninvited, said that the list of invitations to the summit showed that the United States "would rather create a new dividing line, dividing countries into what they perceive as good and bad countries."
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov (as pictured) told reporters, "More and more countries prefer to decide how to live." He said that Washington is "trying to privatize the term 'democracy'" and the United States cannot and should not do this either. This long-awaited first Democracy Summit will be held online from 9 to 10 December 2021, and will be a physical meeting in 2022. (Central News Agency)
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