Taiwan is asking Australia to send a military attache to the island so both sides can give China their assessment of the situation.
Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu attends a press conference for foreign journalists in Taipei, Taiwan, April 7, 2021
sputnik Taiwan is asking Australia to send a military attaché to the island so both sides can give China their assessment of the situation, Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu told Australian media on Sunday.
“I think it’s very important that the two countries can share their observations and assessments of the situation when the Australian government pays much more attention to regional security issues,” Wu said in an interview.
The newspaper said the United States, Japan and Singapore have long stationed their attachés on the island to maintain communications with Taiwanese intelligence agencies.
Wu added that Taiwan also plans to send a military attache to the Canberra office.
Taiwan has been governed independently from mainland China since 1949. Beijing considers the island its province, while Taiwan claims it is an autonomous entity but is reluctant to declare independence. Beijing rejects any official foreign contact with Taipei and considers Chinese sovereignty over the island to be indisputable.
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The latest escalation around Taiwan came in April after Taiwanese President Tsai Ingwen met with US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Beijing responded by conducting massive threeday military exercises near the island, in what it described as a “warning” to Taiwan separatists and foreign powers.