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WHY CHINA OBJECTS TO PELOSI'S VISIT TO TAIWAN

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2022-08-05 08:42:18Chinese Embassy in U.S. Editor : Li Yan ECNS App Download

In response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's op-ed on The Washington Post
entitled “Why I’m leading a congressional delegation to Taiwan”, Ambassador Qin
Gang published an article entitled “Why China objects to Pelosi’s visit to
Taiwan” on The Washington Post on August 4, 2022. The full text is as follows:

Taiwan has been an inseparable part of China’s territory for 1,800 years. In
1943, the leaders of China, the United States and Britain issued the Cairo
Declaration, which clearly states that all territories Japan stole from the
Chinese, such as Taiwan, shall be restored to China. The Potsdam Declaration of
1945 affirmed that the terms of the Cairo Declaration would be carried out.
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758, passed in 1971, recognized that
the representatives of the government of the People’s Republic of China are the
only lawful representatives of China to the United Nations.

When China and the United States established diplomatic relations on Jan. 1,
1979, the United States recognized in the joint communique with China that the
government of the People’s Republic of China is the sole legal government of
China. Four decades have passed since, and the United States has long been
committed to not developing official relations with Taiwan.

By order of succession, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is the
third-highest-ranking official in the U.S. government. Traveling in a military
aircraft, Pelosi paid a high-profile “official visit to Taiwan” this week, as
her office described it in her arrival statement, and was given full-protocol
treatment by Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party authorities, who make no
secret of pursuing independence in their party platform. Such a visit has openly
broken America’s commitment not to develop official relations with Taiwan.

These are extremely irresponsible, provocative and dangerous moves.

The one-China principle is part of the postwar international order and has
become a general international consensus. As a country that thinks of itself as
a champion of the “rules-based international order,” the United States should
naturally abide by the one-China principle.

In the past, the United States has violated and undermined the principle by
adopting the Taiwan Relations Act and the “Six Assurances” to Taiwan. And it is
doing so again now in a broader attempt to unilaterally change the status quo on
Taiwan and alter the postwar international order.

Fifty years ago, Henry Kissinger, who was personally involved in the
negotiations for the normalization of China-U.S. relations, witnessed how the
Taiwan question was properly handled on the basis of the one-China principle.
Recently, he noted, “The United States should not by subterfuge or by a gradual
process develop something of a ‘two-China’ solution.”

People on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are Chinese. China will show the
utmost sincerity and make the utmost efforts to achieve peaceful reunification,
but China will not allow Taiwan to be divided from it in whatever form.

The current Taiwan authorities have rejected the facts and legal grounds that
both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to one and the same China, in a pursuit
of independence with the help of the United States. Their tactics include trying
to sever historical and cultural bonds with the mainland, erasing national
identity and stoking confrontation. The United States, meanwhile, sees Taiwan as
a means to contain China and has been hollowing out the one-China principle. In
the past 18 months alone, the United States has made five rounds of arms sales
to Taiwan.

President Biden has said many times that the United States will not change its
one-China policy and does not support “Taiwan independence.” But for the “Taiwan
independence” forces, Pelosi’s visit represents an exceptionally strong signal
that “the U.S. is on Taiwan’s side.” This goes against the one-China principle,
the three Sino-U.S. joint communiques and America’s own commitments. Moreover,
the Pelosi visit will lead “Taiwan independence” forces further down a dangerous
path, with peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait hanging in the balance.

Just think: If an American state were to secede from the United States and
declare independence, and then some other nation provided weapons and political
support for that state, would the U.S. government — or the American people —
allow this to happen?

The Taiwan question is about China’s sovereignty and unity — not democracy. But
it is true that Pelosi’s visit has aroused the indignation of the 1.4 billion
Chinese people. If the United States truly takes democracy to heart, it should
show respect for the call of the Chinese people, who constitute about one-fifth
of the world population.

With both covid--19 and the Ukraine conflict growing into protracted crises, it
is high time for China and the United States to strengthen cooperation and work
with other countries to find solutions. Instead, some politicians choose to
damage China’s core interests, either to seek the limelight or to cement their
political legacy. Their actions will only erode China-U.S. relations and subject
our peoples and militaries to peril.

Taiwan is one of the very few issues that might take China and the United States
to conflict. Extra caution and a sense of responsibility are indispensable when
it comes to Taiwan.



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