The U.S.-U.K. dialogue released a statement over the weekend underlining the need for peace and stability in the cross-strait region. This position, the Foreign Ministry holds, is the latest in a growing international chorus recognizing the need for rules-based order and stability in the region.
U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held the U.S.-U.K. Strategic Dialogue September 10 to 11, after which they released statements summarizing their opinions on international matters. In a statement released on Saturday, they reiterated that peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait are indispensable to the security and prosperity of the international community and called for peaceful resolutions to cross-strait issues.
This statement joins a list of at least four other statements released in September from high-profile talks between countries including Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Australia, Lithuania, Europe, and the U.S. While the focus of the talks between these countries have differed, a shared commonality is their concern about situations in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea.
The Foreign Ministry has maintained the position that preserving peace in the Taiwan Strait and Indo-Pacific region is the consensus among democratic countries. The Ministry emphasized that, even in recent times of increasingly brazen challenges, the duty of Taiwan is to work with like-minded countries to safeguard peace and stability across the strait.