Global Responsibility | Editorial

The long-standing animosity between China and Taiwan continues as Beijing sent 100 fighter jets and bombers into Taiwan’s air defence zone—another incursion outside of the five reported since Friday. Reactionary statements have consequently been issued with the US expressing concerns about China’s ‘destabilising’ actions. Effectively, it has set global expectations that the conflict will escalate further and has shied away from encouraging peace and resolution. Instead, it seems as though the personal rivalry has dictated the US condemnation of China.

Taiwan and China have been at odds with one other due to opposing views on whether the former is a sovereign state. In the past few years, tensions have escalated as Beijing moves towards its announced objective of recovering the land of Taiwan. The global community must play its part in maintaining its neutrality and proposing avenues through which peace can be attained. The US should especially be advised to facilitate negotiations instead of mounting more pressure and apprehension.

Accusatory statements that only state China’s actions as being ‘provocative’, ‘risking miscalculations’ and ‘undermining regional security’ followed by complete silence on what solutions can be employed only furthers the anxiety of the region at large. A country like the US, which has often flexed its global credentials is supposed to honour its promise of promoting reconciliation, regardless of its relations with concerned parties.

These statements are also nothing but an eyewash. Even if we were to entertain the worst possible scenario feared by the US—the complete takeover of Taiwan—the probability that the US would intervene is extremely low. Back when Russia invaded Ukraine, President Obama made the same statement of being ‘deeply concerned by destabilising Russian actions in the region’ but little was done to mitigate the damage done. If this is the future that awaits Taiwan even in the worst case scenario, then all the bravado with which the US is reacting is rather meaningless.

In a time like this, what matters the most is how the global community can help two parties come to a peaceful resolution and it must do well to remember this responsibility.

Source: Published in The Nation​

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