Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/04/20
By: Tai Ya-chen and Chi Jo-yao
London, April 19 (CNA) The British-Taiwanese All-Party Parliamentary Group expressed
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concern this week over China’s fighter jets recently crossing the median line of the Taiwan Strait, and said such a move endangered regional peace.
In a joint statement released on Thursday, U.K. Member of Parliament Nigel Evans and Lord Rogan, deputy speaker of the House of Lords, said the intentional crossing of the Chinese fighter jets over the median line of the Taiwan Strait, a maritime boundary that has been abided by Taiwan and China for years, has damaged the cross-strait status quo.
“We are seriously concerned about the rise of tension in cross-strait relations,” Evans and Rogan said as co-chairs of the group. “It is evident that regional peace and stability is at stake.”
The co-chairs said that the prosperity and stability across the Taiwan Strait were “hugely important to the East Asian region and the world as a whole” and stressed that maintaining peace in the region was in the common interest of all parties concerned. [FULL STORY]
