Ahead Of Military Anniversary China Calls Taiwan Its Sacred Mission
The Biden-Xi summit is their fifth call in 18 months. Their latest talks come as Beijing ratchets up its aggressive rhetoric in hopes of stopping House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from leading a high-profile visit to Taipei next month. At a monthly press conference in the Chinese capital, China’s Defense Ministry spokesperson Wu Qian issued the country’s latest hands-off message about Taiwan, the democratically governed island off the coast of eastern China, claimed by successive Chinese leaders as part of its sovereignty territory....