United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned China not to use Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen's transit visit to the US as a pretext to "ratchet up" tensions between Washington and Beijing.
"These transits by high-level Taiwanese authorities are nothing new, they are private, unoffical" Blinken stressed during the press briefing in Brussels, stressing that these engagements have been lasting for years between Washington-Taipei top officials. Blinken reiterated that the US position on the Taiwan matter has remained "unchanged."
United States House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Taiwan's president are set to meet later today in Simi Valley, California.
