Tension in the Taiwan Strait 'gravest threat' to East Asia security: Experts


US Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John Finn transits the Taiwan Strait March 10, 2021 - Reuters

TOKYO (The Straits Times/ANN): The Taiwan Strait poses the gravest threat to regional security in the event of a military accident there as tensions threaten to boil over, even if the preference may be to preserve the status quo, experts told a regional forum on Friday (May 21).

"Nobody is willing to change the status quo either for Taiwan independence or inclusion into the Chinese regime," former Japanese ambassador Kenichiro Sasae said at the 26th International Conference on The Future of Asia held by Nikkei.

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