China’s plans to annex Taiwan are moving “faster”, according to the US.

The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, warns that Beijing considers that the ‘status quo’ on Taiwan is no longer acceptable Xi Jinping warned two days ago that he will not give up “the use of force” to achieve reunification with the autonomous island In the face of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Blinken affirms that the period after the Cold War “has come to an end” China would be carrying out its plans to annex Taiwan to a “much faster timeline” under the mandate of President Xi Jinping. This is stated by the Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, who warns about the global economic impact that such a movement would have. The warnings of the head of North American diplomacy coincide with the celebration of the XX Congress of the Communist Party of China, in which the president of the Asian giant strengthens his power with the renewal of a third term. Xi warned last Sunday that he will not renounce “the use of force” to achieve reunification with the autonomous island, which Beijing considers a rebel and whose territory it claims. In a conversation at Stanford University, Blinken said that peace and stability between China and Taiwan had been successfully maintained for decades, but that Beijing had changed its approach. “Instead of sticking to the status quo that was positively established, (Beijing has made) the fundamental decision that the status quo is no longer acceptable, and is determined to seek reunification in a much faster timeframe,” he said. the US Secretary of State. On the other hand, Blinken has assured that the world is at “a turning point” and that the period after the cold war “has come to an end” after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. at a turning point. The post-Cold War world has come to an end and there is intense competition underway to shape what comes after,” said the US Secretary of State during a press conference held in the city of Stanford, California. For this reason, during a visit to the Silicon Valley technology hub, Blinken argued that technology is going to make a difference in the future and that it is going to reform “in many ways” economies, armies and the lives of many people. “When we saw the threat of this Russian aggression increase before February 24, one of the things that President Biden did was try to make sure that the Ukrainians had in their hands the tools that they would have to deal with Russian aggression,” The head of the State Department has detailed. “And what has happened since then is that the nature of the aggression has changed. It moves to different places, different terrain, different weapons are used. We have adjusted every step along the way in very close collaboration with our Ukrainian partners, as well as with many countries around the world,” he added. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. S. Barros/LongVisual via ZUMA Pr / In this regard, DPA has stressed the need to bring more technology to Ukraine to ensure that it can defend itself, for example, from the recent kamikaze drone attacks that have claimed the lives of many people in recent days. However, Blinken He has warned that the attacks on civilians by Russia are “a sign of the levels to which they will be lowered”, for which he has emphasized that the United States intends to make sure that it is doing “everything possible” to help the Ukrainians to defend against “this aggression, even while they are pushing the Russians to withdraw from the territory that Russia seized”.