US opposes any effort to change Taiwan status quo , Blinken says – TODAY

PHNOM PENH :The United States opposes any unilateral efforts to change the Taiwan status quo, especially by force, and its policy on Taiwan has not changed, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Southeast Asian counterparts on Thursday. Cross-strait stability is in the interests of the whole region, he told a meeting in Cambodia, a day after U.S. house speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan. It was the highest-level U.S. visit in 25 years, infuriating China, which claims the self-ruled island as part of its territory. “We and countries around the world believe that escalation serves no one and could have unintended…