Beijing, China
“Containing China is an impossible mission,” he warned on Thursday Chinese Ministry of Defense to the United States, as the new Biden administration seeks to unite its Asian allies against Beijing.
Military tensions between the two major world powers have grown under the leadership of former President Donald Trump, who had taken an aggressive stance on issues such as Taiwan and the South China Sea.
However, this firmness did not stop Chinese army has strengthened its deterrent capacity and its navy in recent years.
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“The facts showed that the content China It is an impossible mission and it is equivalent to shooting yourself in the foot, “said Wu Qian, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Defense.
“ Sino-US military relations he is now at a new historic starting point with the arrival of Joe Biden, he added in an online briefing, urging Washington to “non-confrontational and mutual respect.”
In recent years, China has increasingly insisted on its sovereignty over the vast majority of islands and reefs in the South China Sea, to the despair of other countries such as Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Brunei, which have claims in that area.
Faced with these allegations, the Trump administration sent warships to navigate the Beijing-controlled islands in the name of “freedom of navigation.”
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A hard line that Joe Biden seems to want to follow.
This weekend, the aircraft carrier “Theodore Roosevelt” launched the first Biden-era “freedom of navigation” mission in the South China Sea. At the same time, Washington is increasing contacts with its Asia-Pacific allies.
Biden on Wednesday, he reminded Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga of the United States’ “unwavering commitment” to protecting Japan, including the Senkaku / Diaoyu Islands, an uninhabited archipelago claimed by Beijing in the East China Sea.