{"id":61870,"date":"2020-07-22T12:21:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T12:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/07\/22\/day-after-secdef-expressed-support-for-taiwan-island-nation-says-china-stepping-up-threats\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:40:29","slug":"day-after-secdef-expressed-support-for-taiwan-island-nation-says-china-stepping-up-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/flashpoints\/2020\/07\/22\/day-after-secdef-expressed-support-for-taiwan-island-nation-says-china-stepping-up-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Day after Esper expressed support for Taiwan, island nation says China stepping up threats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TAIPEI, Taiwan \u2014 A day after Defense Secretary Mark Esper said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/asia-pacific\/2020\/07\/21\/esper-no-orders-issued-to-remove-forces-from-south-korea\/\" target=_blank>the U.S. remains steadfast in its support of Taiwan<\/a>, that nation\u2019s foreign minister said China appears to be a stepping up of its threat to use force to take control of the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China is sending military planes near Taiwan with increasing frequency and and have become \u201cvirtually a daily occurrence,\u201d Joseph Wu told reporters, adding that such flights are more frequent than reported in the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along with Chinese military exercises simulating an attack on Taiwan, the flights by China are causing major concern for Taiwan&#8217;s government, Wu said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat it is doing now is inceasingly preparing to use force to resolve the Taiwan problem,\u201d Wu said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2020\/07\/21\/secdef-were-not-going-to-be-stopped-by-anybody-from-operating-in-south-china-sea\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Nimitz_Reagan_South-China-Sea.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">SECDEF: \u2018We\u2019re not going to be stopped by anybody\u2019 from operating in South China Sea<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">\u201cLook, American aircraft carriers have been in the South China Sea in the Indo-Pacific since World War II.&quot;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Esper, speaking Tuesday at an event hosted by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said America remains steadfast in its support of Taiwan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Donald Trump administration \u201cremains committed\u201d to Taiwan, even as the actions from Beijing become \u201cmore aggressive\u201d toward its neighbor, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve seen [China] build up their military, we\u2019ve seen them be more assertive, they got hundreds, if not over a thousand, missiles aimed at Taiwan. And we\u2019ve seen President [Xi Jinping] and his party really take this to a new level,\u201d Esper said. \u201cSo we remain committed to regional peace and security. We will live up to our commitments to Taiwan, which is all in the interest of a secure and stable region, if you will.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that commitment includes potential future arms sales, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/2020\/07\/09\/us-gives-the-green-light-to-japans-massive-23b-f-35-buy\/\">most recent of which<\/a> led to China announcing it would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/07\/14\/business\/china-sanctions-lockheed-martin-hnk-intl\/index.html\">sanction American defense company<\/a> Lockheed Martin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The secretary also said he hoped to travel to China before the end of the year \u201cin order to enhance cooperation on areas of common interest, establish the systems necessary for crisis communications, and reinforce our intentions to openly compete in the international system in which we all belong.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China claims the self-ruling island democracy as its own territory and threatens to use the People&#8217;s Liberation Army to bring it under its control. The sides split in a civil war in 1949 when Chiang Kai-shek&#8217;s Nationalists fled to the former Japanese colony as the Communist Party took control in mainland China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beijing has cut ties with the island\u2019s government since Taiwan elected independence-leaning President Tsai Ing-wen in 2016 and has sought to isolate it diplomatically while raising the military threat. Despite that, Tsai was reelected this year by a wide margin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wu said China appeared to have grown in confidence following its crackdown on opposition voices in the former British colony of Hong Kong, facilitated by the national legislature&#8217;s passage of a sweeping security law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf international society does not give China a sufficiently clear signal, I believe China will take it that international society will not impede it in doing other things,\u201d Wu said. \u201cThis is what we are extremely worried about.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wu stressed the need for coordination with allies such as Japan and the U.S., neither of which has official diplomatic ties with Taiwan but which maintain close relations. 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