The Chinese military researcher's comments to state media followed China's three days of drills around Taiwan.
and calls the island's president a separatist with a"Taiwan independence" agenda. Her democratically mandated policy is to indefinitely prolong the cross-Taiwan Strait status quo, under which the island exists as a country with limited recognition, but which ultimately remains free from Chinese Communist Party rule.
"But who has caused these tensions? Is it the PLA drills or Taiwan independence? I think it is Taiwan independence that is causing the tensions," said Zhao."Forces seeking Taiwan independence forced the PLA to respond." A French-made Mirage fighter jet prepares to take off at an air force base in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, on April 6, 2023. A senior Chinese colonel has said Chinese military exercises around Taiwan could raise tensions but denied China was to blame.In public remarks, the Chinese leadership describes Taiwan independence, or anti-unification, as the will of the few. It almost never acknowledges the changing public opinion landscape in Taiwan, which democratized in the 1990s.
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