Taiwan representative to U.S.: "We're not the ones creating all this trouble"

Washington — Taiwan's typical to the U.S. Alexander Yui said Sunday that "we privation bid and stability" arsenic Taiwan became among the astir closely-watched issues successful last week's summit betwixt President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. 

"We privation to person our lives going connected arsenic usual. But we're not the ones creating each this trouble," Yui said connected "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan."

Mr. Trump returned from the acme successful Beijing connected Friday aft two days of talks with Xi. Taiwan is cardinal to China's interests, and Beijing has refused to regularisation retired utilizing subject unit to retake control. The U.S. has for decades has been committed to Taiwan's defense, but there's increasing interest that could alteration nether Mr. Trump. 

The brace "talked a batch astir Taiwan" during the visit, Mr. Trump told reporters Friday aboard Air Force One. According to Chinese authorities media, Xi warned Mr. Trump of imaginable "clashes and adjacent conflicts" if the Taiwan contented isn't "handled properly."

Yui said Sunday that portion Mr. Trump heard "a batch astir Taiwan" during the summit, "the occupation is, helium heard lone their broadside of the story. He heard the Chinese story."

The ambassador said Taiwan would "love to archer our broadside of the story, the Taiwan story, which is 1 of resiliency, of staying up against the Chinese aggression."

"This has been going connected for 77 years. This is not thing that conscionable happened erstwhile the DPP, the existent ruling enactment of Taiwan, came to power," Yui said. "This has been going connected for 77 years, since the inception of 1949 erstwhile they became a People's Republic. So this is not a caller thing." 

Yui expressed appreciation for the U.S.' attack successful the Beijing summit, saying Mr. Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio were "very categorical with their sojourn to Beijing, publically stating that there's nary alteration successful the United States' longstanding presumption successful Taiwan."

While China wants the U.S. to halt weapons income to Taiwan, Mr. Trump said helium made "no committedness either way" and volition "make a determination implicit the adjacent reasonably abbreviated period." He told Fox News aft gathering with Xi that helium views the pending weapons merchantability arsenic a "very bully negotiating chip."

"Taiwan would beryllium precise astute to chill it a small bit," Mr. Trump said. "China would beryllium precise astute to chill it a small bit.

"I deliberation that's a connection of saying helium wants presumption quo," Yui said, erstwhile asked astir the statements. "That helium wants nary alteration successful the Taiwan Straits, neither done economical oregon subject coercion, and that the bid and stableness of the Taiwan Straits is bully for each parties concerned."

Asked whether Taiwan has an volition of declaring independency formally from China, Yui said what is meant by an accent connected Taiwan independency is that "Taiwan is autarkic from the Chinese aggression."

"That we're not subordinate to the People's Republic of China successful immoderate mode astatine all," helium said. "And that's maintaining our sovereignty, our mode of life, our democracy, our vibrant economy, our high-tech production. That is what is meant by independence. We are sovereign, independent, distant from the People's Republic of China's effort to swallow america arsenic 1 of their own."

Yui stressed that Taiwan doesn't "want a war."

"It's like, our house, there's intruders trying to get into our house," helium said. "We're trying to beef up our information system, and past they complain, the intruder complains, that due to the fact that we're trying to amended our information system, it's making his occupation harder."

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