BEIJING, March 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Chinese lawmakers, political advisors and
scholars all pledge their resolute support for the enacting the anti-secession
law, the draft of which is being deliberated by China's top legislature.
"It's an international convention for a nation to oppose secessionist
activities and safeguard its national sovereignty andterritorial integrity
through legislation," said Xia Jiajun, a member of the CPPCC National Committee
and professor of the law research center of the China University of Political
Science and Law.
"No sovereign state will tolerate any secessionist activities and
activities to sabotage national unity. The United State, Britain, Russia all
have drafted relevant laws," acknowledged Xia.
Xu Shiquan, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's
Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), said the draftanti-secession law
codifies guidelines and policies adopted by three generations of the Chinese
leadership in dealing with the Taiwan issue and eloquently embodies the
consistent stance of the Chinese government to achieve the peaceful
reunification of the motherland with its maximum sincerity and its firm resolve
to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Xu Bodong, director of the Taiwan Research Institute under the Beijing
Union University, said it is nothing but a pure lie to cite the anti-secession
law as a "war mobilization law" and an attempt at "unilaterally changing the
status quo."
"The Chinese mainland and Taiwan belong to the one and same China. This has
not only been testified by historical facts but also defined by the
international law. It complies with the existing legal framework in Taiwan,"
said Xu.
Zhu Weidong, a noted research fellow at the Taiwan Issue Research Institute
under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said the anti-secession law is
aimed to take preventive measures against the secessionist activities.
It is the 'Taiwan independence' secessionist forces themselves which have
been bent on undermining stability across the Taiwan Straits, said David Chu
Yu-lin, an NPC deputy from Hong Kong. "Their secessionist activities are the
only reason for and the fundamental source of cross-Straits
tension."