Blinken Warns It Would Be ‘Serious Mistake’ for Beijing to Attack Taiwan

Blinken Warns It Would Be ‘Serious Mistake’ for Beijing to Attack Taiwan
Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the State Department in Washington on April 5, 2021. Alexander Drago/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
Cathy He
Cathy He
EDITOR
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on April 11 that it would be a “serious mistake” for the Chinese regime to attack Taiwan and expressed “real concern” about Beijing’s growing intimidation against the island.

In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” however, Blinken stopped short of saying whether the United States would respond militarily if the Chinese regime were to seize Taiwan by force, saying he wasn’t “going to get into hypotheticals.”

Cathy He
Cathy He
EDITOR
Cathy He is the politics editor at the Washington D.C. bureau. She was previously an editor for U.S.-China and a reporter covering U.S.-China relations.
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