White House says China ‘decided to overreact’ to Pelosi visit to Taiwan

The United States said on Thursday that China’s launch of 11 ballistic missiles around Taiwan was an overreaction to the visit of the Speaker of the US House of Representatives. Nancy Pelosi, to Taiwan.

The United States has decided to postpone an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test scheduled for the coming days “to avoid further escalation of tensions,” White House spokesman John Kirby told a press conference.

“At a time when China is conducting destabilizing military exercises around Taiwan, the United States is instead behaving like a responsible nuclear power, reducing the risk of miscalculation,” he said.

The spokesman recalled that the president Joe Biden talked to my Chinese colleague Xi JinpingFor the last week.

“Lines of communication are still open from Beijing and I think you will see it in the next few days,” he said. – It is very important”.

China and Taiwan

China fired 11 ballistic missiles at Taiwan and landed in the northeast, east and southeast of the island,” he said.

“We condemn these actions, which are irresponsible,” he added. Beijing took advantage of the President’s visit House of Representatives as “a pretext for intensifying its provocative military activity in taiwan strait and its environs.

“We will not seek to provoke a crisis and do not want it,” he stressed. “At the same time, no one will dissuade us from actions in the seas and skies above Western Pacificin accordance with international law,” he said.

That’s why the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, decided to keep the aircraft carrier in the area “a little longer than planned” USS Ronald Reagan and his airborne team, which is currently sailing in the Philippine Sea to “monitor the situation,” he said.

Tests of the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) are ongoing and a date will be determined later.

(According to AFP)

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