Taiwan refused to get too excited, and the PRC played down its anger. The PRC's first official reaction indicated that the PRC wanted to mark its displeasure without blowing up the issue. In Taiwan, PRC Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Chang Siao-yue said Taiwan saw no shift in US policy away from the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act. The new U.S. administration's policy toward Taiwan is consistent with its commitments in the Taiwan Relations Act. What concerns us the most is peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.
Nobody wants war.
Everyone wants peace. Political analysts said Taiwan was anxious not to provoke the PRC by crowing about an apparently hardening US position on defending the island. Ting Shou-chung, a legislator from Taiwan's main opposition Nationalist Party, said he feared the US was using the island as a bargaining chip in its dispute with the PRC over the April 1 collision between a US spy plane and PRC fighter jet. Taiwan could be a bargaining chip. It doesn't do us any good if Taiwan is pushed to the front line.