BEIJING, March 19 (ChinaMil) -- China's four authorities including the Ministry of National Defense, the Chinese Embassy in the United States, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the People's Daily newspaper on March 17th and 18th lodged stern representations with or voiced strong condemnation against the United States over a Taiwan-related bill. They all expressed China's strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition to the bill.
Chinese Embassy in the U.S.: China firmly oppose the "Taiwan Travel Act"
Commenting on the U.S. signing the "Taiwan Travel Act", the Chinese Embassy in the United States on March 17 expressed China's strong dissatisfaction with and firm opposition to it, saying the bill severely violates the one-China principle.
The relevant clauses of the "Taiwan Travel Act" severely violate the one-China principle, the political foundation of the China-U.S. relationship, and the three joint communiqués between China and the U.S. China is strongly dissatisfied with that and firmly opposes it.
China urge the U.S. side to adhere to the one-China policy and honor the commitments it made in the three joint communiqués, stop pursuing any official ties with Taiwan or improving its current relations with Taiwan in any substantive way.
Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry: "Taiwan Travel Act" sends out very wrong signals to the "pro-independence" separatist forces
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has lodged stern representations with the United States over a Taiwan-related bill on March 17, 2018, saying that the Chinese side firmly oppose the U.S. side signing the "Taiwan Travel Act" and have lodged stern representations with the US side.
As has been pointed out many times by China, the relevant clauses of the act, though not legally binding, severely violated the one-China principle and the three joint communiqués between China and the US. The "Taiwan Travel Act" sends out very wrong signals to the "pro-independence" separatist forces in Taiwan.
China is strongly opposed to that. Chinese side urge the US side to correct its mistake, stop pursuing any official ties with Taiwan or improving its current relations with Taiwan in any substantive way, and handle Taiwan-related issues properly and cautiously so as to avoid causing severe damage to the China-US relations and cross-Straits peace and stability.
Chinese Defense Ministry: U.S. should stop seeking any official contacts, military ties or arms sales with Taiwan
Chinese Military firmly oppose the U.S. side signing the "Taiwan Travel Act", said Senior Colonel Wu Qian, spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of National Defense, in responding to a Taiwan-related bill on March 17, 2018.
"Taiwan is a part of China and issues regarding Taiwan are completely internal affairs of China," said Senior Colonel Wu Qian.
Wu also stressed that the Taiwan related bill had interfered in the internal affairs of China and injured the environment for the development of relations between the two countries' militaries.
"China demands that the U.S. keep its promises, rectify its wrongs, refrain from implementing relevant clauses of the bill and stop seeking any official contacts, military ties or arms sales with Taiwan, so as to avoid doing serious harm to the China-U.S. relationship, the ties between the two countries' militaries and the peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait," Wu said.
People's Daily: Chinese people will never agree!
People's Daily, an official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, published an article titled "To upset the political foundation of China-US relationship is stupid".
The "Taiwan Travel Act" has challenged the bottom line of China. It has severely disrupted the China-US relations and interfered with the situation across the Taiwan Straits. And the Chinese people will never agree on the bill, said the article.
