Posted on 08/02/2022 11:37:04 AM PDT by Ebenezer
BEIJING, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday issued a statement on Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi's visit to China's Taiwan region. Following is the full text of the statement:
On 2 August, in disregard of China's strong opposition and serious representations, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi visited China's Taiwan region. This is a serious violation of the one-China principle and the provisions of the three China-U.S. joint communiqués. It has a severe impact on the political foundation of China-U.S. relations, and seriously infringes upon China's sovereignty and territorial integrity. It gravely undermines peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait, and sends a seriously wrong signal to the separatist forces for "Taiwan independence". China firmly opposes and sternly condemns this, and has made serious démarche and strong protest to the United States.
There is but one China in the world, Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory, and the Government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China. This has been clearly recognized by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 of 1971. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, 181 countries have established diplomatic relations with China on the basis of the one-China principle. The one-China principle is a universal consensus of the international community and a basic norm in international relations.
In 1979, the United States made a clear commitment in the China-U.S. Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations -- "The United States of America recognizes the Government of the People's Republic of China as the sole legal Government of China. Within this context, the people of the United States will maintain cultural, commercial, and other unofficial relations with the people of Taiwan." Congress, as a part of the U.S. Government, is inherently obliged to strictly observe the one-China policy of the U.S. Government and refrain from having any official exchanges with China's Taiwan region. China is all along opposed to the visit to Taiwan by U.S. congressional members, and the U.S. executive branch has the responsibility to stop such visit. Since Speaker Pelosi is the incumbent leader of the U.S. Congress, her visit to and activities in Taiwan, in whatever form and for whatever reason, is a major political provocation to upgrade U.S. official exchanges with Taiwan. China absolutely does not accept this, and the Chinese people absolutely reject this.
The Taiwan question is the most important and most sensitive issue at the very heart of China-U.S. relations. The Taiwan Strait is facing a new round of tensions and severe challenges, and the fundamental cause is the repeated moves by the Taiwan authorities and the United States to change the status quo. The Taiwan authorities have kept seeking U.S. support for their independence agenda. They refuse to recognize the 1992 Consensus, go all out to push forward "de-sinicization", and promote "incremental independence". The United States, for its part, has been attempting to use Taiwan to contain China. It constantly distorts, obscures and hollows out the one-China principle, steps up its official exchanges with Taiwan, and emboldens "Taiwan independence" separatist activities. These moves, like playing with fire, are extremely dangerous. Those who play with fire will perish by it.
The position of the Chinese Government and people on the Taiwan question has been consistent. It is the firm commitment of the more than 1.4 billion Chinese people to resolutely safeguard state sovereignty and territorial integrity. It is the common aspiration and sacred responsibility of all Chinese sons and daughters to realize the complete reunification of the motherland. The will of the people is not to be defied, and the trend of the times cannot be reversed. No country, no forces and no individual should ever misestimate the firm resolve, strong will and great capability of the Chinese Government and people to defend state sovereignty and territorial integrity and to achieve national reunification and rejuvenation. China will definitely take all necessary measures to resolutely safeguard its sovereignty and territorial integrity in response to the U.S. Speaker's visit. All the consequences arising therefrom must be borne by the U.S. side and the "Taiwan independence" separatist forces.
China and the United States are two major countries. The right way for them to deal with each other lies only in mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, no-confrontation and win-win cooperation. The Taiwan question is purely an internal affair of China, and no other country is entitled to act as a judge on the Taiwan question. China strongly urges the United States to stop playing the "Taiwan card" and using Taiwan to contain China. It should stop meddling on Taiwan and interfering in China's internal affairs. It should stop supporting and conniving at "Taiwan independence" separatist forces in any form. It should stop its acts of saying one thing but doing the opposite on the Taiwan question. It should stop distorting, obscuring and hollowing out the one-China principle. It must take credible actions to observe strictly the one-China principle and the provisions of the three China-U.S. joint communiqués, deliver on the "five noes" commitment made by the U.S. leadership (i.e. not seek a "new Cold War"; not seek to change China's system; the revitalization of its alliances is not against China; not support "Taiwan independence"; not look for conflict with China), and not go further down the wrong and dangerous path.
We need to start getting people off that island and move the chip making facilities out as well.
Did they pee in Nancy’s Coke?
“The Taiwan question is purely an internal affair of China”
No. That is not part of the protocols agreed to between the U.S. and China. The Taiwan question is one to be peacefully resolved by China and Taiwan, not by China alone.
#FChina
Can't believe some Freepers were defending her in other threads.
Can you imagine the hysteria our pretend media would be in right now if a similar event happened in the Trump Administration? They would already be calling for the impeachment of Trump for allowing such a stunt to happen on his watch.
China didn’t honor the one-country-two-systems agreement with regard to Hong Kong, so any one-China-principle agreement with regard to Taiwan has to be reconsidered in light of that.
China=PAPER TIGER!! World will be laughing at them! Cowards! Big talk but no stick! 😂😆🤣 Bending over in laughter!😂 PAPER coward TIGERS!!
Yep! China is resembling more and more by the hour our despicable spineless POS R I N O S party. All talk and no action. Cowards!
I don’t know how much clearer they can state it. I fully expect a military action of some sort in retaliation. This Pelosi provocation mirrors the Harris provocation prior to Putin’s move in Ukraine. I wish there were serious individuals in the White House or Pentagon who might realize how serious this deadly game they’re playing is.
“We need to start getting people off that island and move the chip making facilities out as well”.
That’s right. If China gains control of the chip manufacturing on Taiwan, it would be disastrous on many levels. They’d basically own us and many other countries..
But WE are the “coronierists” and “emperiorists”. 🙄
she is getting paid to do this. By whom I do not know nor would I guess. But she is getting paid.
F China and F Pelosi they deserve each other.
“China didn’t honor the one-country-two-systems agreement with regard to Hong Kong, so any one-China-principle agreement with regard to Taiwan has to be reconsidered in light of that.”
Bears repeating. China is as untrustworthy as Russia, if not more so.
XI has demonstrated to the world he is a coward and all he does talk talk talk and no action! He said he would blow her out of the air ... didn’t happen! XI, your own people are laughing at their great and powerful leader ... Disgraceful! They’re seeing their master as only a paper tiger....All teeth and no bite!! Xi you are the joke around the world and a disgrace to your people!
The indigenous population of Taiwan is not Chinese.
They already own us. Quit literally in some cases.
China’s Suspicious Land Grab in America
Just add computer chips to the growing list of industries/components they currently own and have owned for some time now.
Our "leaders," both business and political, sold us out and put us in a very dangerous dependency situation with our main enemy, the CCP.
The only people more scared of Pelosi than Xi are Congressional Republicans.
Yes. They are deliberately extending the war in Ukraine to keep Russia from helping China. The real goal was always war with China..back as far as Hillary in fact.
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