China’s first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, maneuvers in the western Pacific on April 18, 2018. Beijing = Archyde.com
The Chinese government has been openly protesting once morest US President Joe Biden’s remarks that the US might intervene to defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
According to the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China on the 23rd, Spokesperson Wang Won-bin said at a regular briefing on the same day that “China expresses firm opposition and strong dissatisfaction with the remarks made by the US side” in response to President Biden’s remarks. “There is only one China in the world, Taiwan is an integral part of Chinese territory, and the Chinese government is the only legitimate government representing all of China,” he said.
He then insisted that the Taiwan issue is a matter of China’s internal affairs. “We do not tolerate outside interference,” Wang said in a statement.
Spokesperson Wang raised his voice not to underestimate China, a great power. “No one should underestimate the capacity, determination and strong determination of the Chinese people to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity,” he said.
He also warned that the US will take decisive action if it undermines the ‘one China’ principle. Spokesperson Wang said, “The US side will abide by the ‘one China’ principle and provisions of the three major communiques, respect the important promise of not advocating for ‘Taiwan independence’, speak and act prudently on the Taiwan issue. , I urge you not to give any bad signal to the separatist forces of ‘Taiwan independence’.” He added that if the US violates this, it will “severely deteriorate the peace in the Taiwan Strait and China-US relations.”
At a joint press conference following the U.S.-Japan summit in Tokyo, Japan on the 23rd, President Biden answered “yes” to a reporter’s question whether he would intervene to defend Taiwan. “That’s the promise we made,” he stressed. “We have reached a ‘one China principle’ with China, but that does not mean that China can take Taiwan by force,” Biden said.
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