China Wants to ‘Speed Up’ Its Seizure of Taiwan, Blinken Says
- Secretary of state comments on China in Bloomberg interview
- Says Beijing is now ‘exerting more pressure’ on Taipei
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused China of undermining the decades-long status quo that has kept both nations from going to war over Taiwan, saying Beijing was trying to “speed up” its seizure of the island.
“What’s changed is this -- a decision by the government in Beijing that that status quo was no longer acceptable, that they wanted to speed up the process by which they would pursue reunification,” Blinken said Wednesday during an interview at Bloomberg’s offices in Washington.