Chinese defense minister reiterates China’s resolute position on Taiwan question

SINGAPORE, June 11 (Xinhua) — Chinese language State Councilor and Protection Minister Wei Fenghe has reiterated China’s resolute place on the Taiwan query.

Taiwan is an inalienable a part of China’s territory, and the one-China precept is the political basis of China-U.S. relations. The scheme to make use of Taiwan-related points to comprise China is doomed to fail, stated Wei, throughout his assembly with U.S. Secretary of Protection Lloyd Austin Friday on the sidelines of the nineteenth Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore.

In the course of the assembly, Wei stated a brand new spherical of arms gross sales to Taiwan introduced by the U.S. facet not too long ago severely violated the one-China precept and the stipulations of the three China-U.S. joint communiques, undermined China’s nationwide sovereignty and safety pursuits and precipitated extreme injury to China-U.S. relations and peace and stability throughout the Taiwan Strait, in keeping with Wu Qian, spokesperson for the Ministry of Nationwide Protection.

Noting that China firmly opposes and strongly condemns the arms gross sales, Wei harassed that if anybody dares to separate Taiwan from China, the Chinese language Individuals’s Liberation Military (PLA) may have no selection however battle at any value and crush any try of “Taiwan independence” and safeguard nationwide sovereignty and territorial integrity, stated Wu throughout a press briefing after the assembly.

In one other briefing following Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s keynote speech on Friday night, He Lei, former deputy head of the Academy of Army Sciences, stated that Taiwan is an inalienable a part of China’s sacred territory, and that the Taiwan query issues China’s core pursuits and is China’s inner and personal affairs.

The federal government of the Individuals’s Republic of China is the only authorized authorities of China. China will and have to be unified. The PLA has the dedication, confidence, functionality and means to appreciate China’s full reunification of the motherland. “Taiwan independence” is doomed to fail, stated He in the course of the briefing.

“Taiwan independence” will lead nowhere and is thus doomed to fail. Supporting “Taiwan independence” won’t ever come to a very good finish, stated He.

“The event of China strengthens the power of peace on the earth and the event of China’s navy functionality reinforces the energy of safeguarding nationwide pursuits and world peace,” he stated.