New Delhi: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Sunday said that Taiwan “was never a country and will never be a country.”
Addressing a press conference on the sidelines of China’s annual parliamentary and political gatherings, known as the “Two Sessions,” Yi said Taiwan has been an integral part of China since ancient times.
“Its return to China is a victorious outcome of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the Second World War. Its status has been definitively fixed by a series of international legal instruments, including the Cairo Declaration, the Potsdam Proclamation, Japan’s Instrument of Surrender, and Resolution 2758 of the UN General Assembly. Any attempt to create “two Chinas” or “one China, one Taiwan” is doomed to fail,” Mao Ning, spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, quoted Yi as saying.
Ning wrote a series of posts on X, outlining the foreign minister’s position on various global issues.
The foreign minister also said that since last year, relations between China and European countries have been regaining strength.
“Two-way trade topped USD 1 trillion, over two million European tourists travelled to China under visa-free policies, and European leaders paid a number of visits. Interactions are becoming more active,” Yi said.
Commenting on the situation in Iran, he said the war should not have happened.
“The history of the Middle East tells the world time, and again that force provides no solution, and armed conflict will only increase hatred and breed new crises. Once again, China calls for an immediate stop to military operations to avoid a spiralling escalation of the situation,” the foreign minister added.
Regarding China-US relations, Yi said both countries are major powers, and neither side can remodel the other.
He further said: “This year is a ‘big year’ for China-US relations. The agenda of high-level exchanges is already on the table. China remains committed and open. It is critical that the US side work in the same direction. When the two sides treat each other with sincerity and good faith, we will be able to lengthen the list of cooperation and shorten the list of problems.”
