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China vows to defend sovereignty over Taiwan as Trump unveils security strategy
2025-12-09 08:22:23 / BOTA
China on Monday vowed to defend its sovereignty and warned against "foreign interference" after the US unveiled a new security strategy aimed at building military power to deter conflict with Beijing over Taiwan.
Washington laid out its approach to one of the world's most sensitive diplomatic issues in its official National Security Strategy released on Friday.
The document came as Beijing last week deployed a large number of naval and coast guard vessels to East Asian waters in its biggest show of naval force to date.
Taiwan is the first red line that must not be crossed in China-US relations, and China does not tolerate any external interference, Guo Jiakun, a spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry, told reporters in Beijing when asked about the document.
"The US side should ... handle the Taiwan issue with the utmost care and stop appeasing and supporting 'Taiwan independence' separatist forces that seek independence by force or resist reunification by force," he said.
Guo added that China was willing to work with Washington to promote stable ties, while safeguarding its sovereignty, security and development interests.
China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has never ruled out using force to take control of the island. Taiwan's government rejects Beijing's sovereignty claims.
The new US document has been warmly welcomed in Taiwan, whose President Lai Ching-te wrote on X on Saturday: "We highly appreciate that the US National Security Strategy prioritizes preventing a conflict over Taiwan."
Taiwan's Defense Minister, Wellington Koo, told reporters the same day that the United States still considers maintaining peace and stability in the region to be its highest core interest.
"The United States is strongly promoting that countries in the Indo-Pacific region work together to create an effective form of collective deterrence," he said.
"We in Taiwan must also strengthen our self-defense capabilities."
Lai has said Taiwan aims to spend 5 percent of its GDP on defense by 2030 and last month unveiled $40 billion in additional defense spending that will run from 2026 to 2033.
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