Spokesperson of the Chinese Mission Liu Yuyin Speaks on a Question Concerning US House Speaker Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan
2022-08-11 18:17

QSome countries claimed that China unilaterally changed the status quo in the Taiwan Strait, and opposed to solve the Taiwan question in a non-peaceful way. What is your comment on that?

A:This is an outright lie and slander. Taiwan has never been a country, there is only one China in the world, and both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to one and the same China. This has been the status quo of Taiwan since ancient times. The China-US Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations in 1979 stressed that the Government of the People’s Republic of China is the sole legal Government of China and that Taiwan is part of China. This has been the status quo of the Taiwan Strait for decades. But this status quo has been broken, not by China, but by the US and the separatist forces in Taiwan.

In 2000, the US put its own so-called “Taiwan Relations Act” before the three China-US Joint Communiqués. Wasn’t this an attempt to change the status quo? A couple of years ago, the US inserted the so-called “Six Assurances to Taiwan”, something it had long kept secret, into its formulation of the one-China policy. Wasn’t this an attempt to change the status quo or hollow out its one-China policy? We advise the US authorities to take a careful look at the three China-US Joint Communiqués, and then they will have a clear understanding of what the cross-Strait status quo really is and who it is that is changing the status quo.

The same goes for the Taiwan authorities. Since the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) came to power, it has continuously sought “incremental independence”, pushed forward “de-sinicization”, and attempted to create “two Chinas” or “One China, one Taiwan” whenever it had the chance. Isn’t this blatantly changing the status quo as well?