US urged to correct mistakes first to resume dialogue channel with China
Pass buck, play power politics to push Taiwan act could drag ties ‘off cliff’
The US has been looking for scapegoats on creating tensions in ChinaUS ties since China announced eight countermeasures in response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s highly provocative visit to the island of Taiwan, including cancelling military talks and suspending climate change cooperation.
Chinese analysts stressed that it’s the US that should take full responsibility for the cancelation of bilateral dialogues and cooperation in key areas and whether and how they will be resumed all depends on what commitments and actions the US will make in correcting its mistakes.
Meanwhile, analysts warned that China-US relations have entered an extremely dangerous stage and China must be fully prepared for worse scenarios, such as US Congress further pushing forward with the Taiwan Policy Act.
The strained situation in the Taiwan Straits was a result of US provocation and it should take all the responsibility and face the ensuing serious consequences. However, the US is making excuses for its wrong deeds and provocations and trying to shift the blame, which China firmly opposes, Senior Colonel Wu Qian, a spokesperson of China’s Ministry of National Defense, said in a statement on Monday.
In response to Pelosi’s provocative visit to the island of Taiwan, China on Friday announced eight countermeasures, including canceling China-US theater commanders’ talks, defense policy coordination talks and the military maritime security consultative mechanism, and suspended cooperation on illegal immigration repatriation, drug control and climate change.
As for whether there are areas that will continue to be open for communications, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at Monday’s media briefing that dialogue and communication require sincerity and China will continue to lodge solemn representations with the US over Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.
The one-China principle has become a universally recognized basic norm governing international relations and an important part of the post-WWII international order, he said.
Lü Xiang, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times on Monday that whether those cancelled or suspended bilateral exchanges will be resumed and how they will be resumed solely depends on what commitment on the Taiwan question the US will make, but he doubted that the US would make any concrete action before its midterm elections.
“China-US relations have entered an extremely dangerous stage, and if the US Congress continues to push forward with the Taiwan Policy Act, it may result in China-US relations falling off a cliff,” Lü said.