Chinese jets and ships around Taiwan. Beijing: "We will defend national integrity"
The People's Republic promises "resolute responses" after the meeting between the president of the claimed island and the speaker of the US HouseThe meeting between McCarthy and Tsai Ing-wen (Ansa)
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China promises a "resolute" response to the meeting in Los Angeles between Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and the third-ranking US administration, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy . This was reported by the Chinese agency Xinhua.
And an initial response to the face-to-face meeting between McCarthy and the high representative of the island claimed by Beijing has already arrived.
Taiwan's Defense Ministry has in fact reported in a statement that it has detected a jet and three Chinese military ships in the waters around the island in the last 24 hours, precisely on the day of the meeting between Tsai Ing-wen, the Speaker of the US Chamber.
The same ministry, late Wednesday evening said that the Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong crossed the Bashi Channel and the waters southeast of Taiwan, demonstrating - according to the Beijing media - that it was "completely ready for operations in the open sea and to safeguard China's national sovereignty and territorial integrity" .
(Unioneonline/lf)