Taiwan Affairs Office said ChinaToday, Wednesday, the results of the elections that took place in Taiwan do not affect the basic fact that the island is part of Chinese territory.
The official spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office, Chen Bin-hua, explained in a press conference in Beijing that the election results cannot hinder the path towards unification.
For its part, the Taiwanese government rejected China’s claims to sovereignty over the island. Despite this, it has repeatedly made proposals for talks, but these calls have been rejected by the Chinese side. On the other hand, Beijing said that the talks would not take place unless Taiwan recognized that the Taiwan Strait was part of “one China,” which the Taiwanese government rejected.
Last Saturday, the Taiwanese elected Lai Ching-ti, from Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party, as the country’s new president, whom China considers a dangerous separatist.
China’s position
The Chinese government confirmed on Wednesday that it would not give up on the use of force to control Taiwan in order to confront foreign interference and a small number of separatists on the island. She pointed out that this does not mean that China seeks to target citizens in Taiwan at all.
Chen added that public opinion in Taiwan He seeks peace rather than war, and supports exchanges rather than isolation, while repeatedly calling for the “topplement” of the Democratic Progress Party.
He said that if the Party continues to circumvent the path by which it seeks “independence” provocations, this will expose Taiwan to serious risks and cause serious harm to the situation in Taiwan.
