Chinese Minister Bristles At Blinken Statement; Says China Will Never Forget Its National Shame

A top Chinese official has taken to Twitter to lash out against U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's statement that China's military response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to Taiwan was an "overreaction."

In a series of tweets, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying unleashed a scathing attack on Blinken, saying he was "wrong."

"The U.S. should not pretend to be surprised about the Chinese response, as we have tried every means to warn about the consequences of Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, including at the highest level," Hua tweeted.

This was in response to Blinken's statement that Pelosi's visit was peaceful. "There is no justification for this extreme, disproportionate and escalatory military response," Blinken told a news conference in Cambodia where he was attending the ASEAN summit. U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns too called out China the same day, stating its action in and around the Taiwan Strait "threaten the status quo of many decades," adding that "the world should hold Beijing accountable to maintain the peace."

Hua, the assistant minister of foreign affairs in China, also called Pelosi's visit official. "Pelosi's visit to Taiwan has given the lie to the U.S. government's commitment to have only unofficial relations with Taiwan. Could a visit of the No. 3 figure of the U.S. government aboard military aircraft escorted by naval vessels be described as "unofficial," she asked.

"This is proof that the U.S. administration has been complicit all along and therefore must accept all responsibility and consequences," she noted.

Hua also said the U.S. government "instead of preventing such a provocative visit in the first place, now has the face to describe China's legitimate countermeasures as "overreacting."

She also warned the U.S. and the West, with her tweet claiming that the "Chinese people will never forget their national shame and will never allow those bandits to bully and plunder China again."

The only way forward for China-U.S. relations is to return to the one-China principle and the three Sino-US joint communiqués instead of "salami-slicing the one-China policy or changing it by stealth," Hua tweeted.

Meanwhile, an opinion piece by Chinese state-backed Global Times said the "U.S and some of its sidekicks have continued to confuse black and white on the serious consequences" of Pelosi's visit to the Taiwan island."