Foreign Ministry Spokesperson’s Remarks on Lai Ching-teh, Deputy Leader of the Taiwan Region of China, Plans to “Transit” to the United States – Xinhua English.news.cn
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 3rd. The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs answered a reporter’s question on the 3rd regarding Lai Qingde, the deputy leader of the Taiwan region of China, who plans to “transit” to the United States.
A reporter asked: According to reports, Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party authorities announced on the 2nd that the deputy leader of the Taiwan region, Lai Ching-teh, will depart from Taiwan for Paraguay to attend the inauguration of the President of Brazil on the 12th, and will “transit” between New York and San Francisco in the United States. What is the spokesperson’s comment?
The spokesperson said that China firmly opposes any form of official exchanges between the United States and Taiwan, firmly opposes “Taiwan independence” separatists fleeing the United States under any name and for any reason, and firmly opposes the United States’ connivance and support of “Taiwan independence” separatists and their separatist behavior in any form.
The spokesperson said that the Taiwan issue is the core of China’s core interests and an insurmountable red line in Sino-US relations. China urges the U.S. to abide by the one-China principle and the provisions of the three Sino-U.S. joint communiqués, earnestly implement the commitments made by U.S. leaders not to support “Taiwan independence,” stop official exchanges between the U.S. and Taiwan, stop upgrading substantive U.S.-Taiwan relations, and stop splitting toward “Taiwan independence.” The forces sent out wrong signals and should not arrange for Lai Qingde to “transit” to the United States. China will pay close attention to the development of the situation and take resolute and forceful measures to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
“We are telling the DPP authorities that there is no way out for ‘Taiwan independence’ and that Taiwan’s beauty and selling Taiwan will harm the people of Taiwan. Any attempt to collude with external forces to provoke ‘independence’ is doomed to failure,” the spokesman said.
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