China on Monday opposed Taiwan‘s Vice President Lai Ching-te‘s deliberate stopover within the U.S. subsequent month.
Lai is a presidential candidate of the governing Democratic Progressive Party for the upcoming elections in January.
Mao Ning, spokeswoman of China’s Foreign Ministry, stated: “China firmly opposes any form of official interaction between the U.S. and the Taiwan region.”
“(China) firmly opposes the U.S.’ conniving with and supporting the ‘Taiwan independence’ separatists and their separatist activities in any form,” stated Mao, in accordance with a transcript issued by the ministry.
Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry stated on Monday that Lai will attend the presidential inauguration of Santiago Pena in Paraguay subsequent month.
The island nation’s Vice Foreign Minister Alexander Yui stated Lai can have a stopover within the U.S. throughout his journey to the Central American nation. He supplied no additional particulars, in accordance with the Focus Taiwan news web site.
“We have lodged serious representations with the U.S. side,” Mao instructed reporters in Beijing.
“We urge the U.S. to abide by the one-China principle and the three China-U.S. joint communiqués, act on its leaders’ commitment including not supporting ‘Taiwan independence,’ stop official interaction with Taiwan, stop upgrading its substantive exchanges with the region, and stop sending any wrong signal to the ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist forces,” the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman added.
China considers Taiwan its “breakaway province” and reacts sharply to any interplay between Washington and Taipei.
In April this yr, China sanctioned the U.S. Hudson Institute and the Reagan Library, in addition to their administrators, for internet hosting Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen after she “transited” the U.S.
Hudson Institute in New York hosted an occasion the place Tsai was offered with a world management award on March 30.
On her return from Guatemala and Belize, two of the one 13 diplomatic allies of Taiwan, the Reagan Library hosted a gathering between Tsai and U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy within the U.S. state of California.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
