China opposes the United States’ willingness to defend Taiwan militarily, as President Joe Biden promised, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said Monday.
“China expresses its deep dissatisfaction and strongest protest to the United States for its remarks,” Wang told a news conference.
“Taiwan is an integral part of China,” he added.
“We call on the US side to sincerely abide by the ‘One China’ principle and three Sino-US joint communiques,” he said.
It also demands to fulfill their obligations “not to support Taiwan independence, to be careful with their statements and actions on the Taiwan issue.”
He stressed that the United States must avoid “sending the wrong signals to separatist forces in Taiwan,” he said.
He stressed that Taiwan is an integral part of Chinese territory and Beijing will take “resolute measures to defend its sovereignty and security interests.”
Official relations between Beijing and Taipei were suspended in 1949, after the forces of the Chinese nationalist Kuomintang party, led by Chiang Kai-shek, suffered a defeat in the civil war against the Communist Party of China and moved to Taiwan.
Links between Taiwan and mainland China were only re-established on a business and informal level in the late 1980s.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said last October that Beijing “can and will achieve reunification” with this rebellious territory.
Biden’s statements
Earlier on Monday, US President Joe Biden said that if China tries to invade Taiwan, the US will intervene militarily.
“The United States has committed to supporting the ‘one China’ position, but that does not mean that China has the jurisdiction to use force to take Taiwan,” Biden said when asked about this possibility during a media appearance in the framework of his visit to Japan.
Faced with the possibility of intervening in said scenario, the president replied “yes, we have committed ourselves to it.”
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