China's Ministry of Commerce on Thursday said China strongly opposes a new trade initiative between Taiwan and the United States, a plan which the Taipei government says is a recognition of the island's key position in the supply chain. global.

The United States and Taiwan say the 21st Century Trade Initiative they launched comes just days after the Biden administration's excluded the island from previous economic plans in order to prevent China's influence from growing on the island, and in the Eastern Pacific region, Telegrafi reports.

China was irritated by the US intervention in Taiwan, describing this as the most sensitive and important period in China-US relations.

"The United States needs to be cautious about its economic and trade relations with Taiwan so that it does not send the wrong message to the Taiwanese separatists," said Gao Feng, a spokesman for China's Ministry of Commerce.

"Official Beijing opposes any formal contact between Taiwan and other states, including the negotiation and signing of any economic and trade agreement that has a sovereign or official connotation," Gao said in a statement.

/ Telegraphy /