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The Taiwan issue is “the core of China’s fundamental interests and the first insurmountable red line in Sino-American relations.” The Chinese Foreign Ministry wrote this in a note following the election victory of William Lai Ching-te, the candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party. In the note, Beijing adds that it has “strongly contested the US State Department's statement” on the “elections in China's Taiwan region,” which is a serious violation of the “One China principle and the three common Chinese American communiqués”. The US sent “a seriously wrong signal with which China is extremely dissatisfied and which China rejects, and for this reason has sent serious complaints to the United States.”
China, we read in the note, has always “strongly opposed any form of official exchange between the United States and Taiwan” as well as “interference by the United States in Taiwan’s affairs in any way and under any pretext.” Therefore, “we urge the United States to seriously respect the One China Principle and the three Sino-American communiqués,” and recall what U.S. leaders have often repeated: “not to support Taiwan's independence, the ” “two Chinas”, “one China, one Taiwan””. Beijing therefore reiterates its call for America to stop official exchanges between Washington and Taipei and “stop sending false signals to the separatist forces of Taiwan independence.”
Meanwhile, a delegation of former American officials has just arrived in Taiwan for post-election meetings “in a private capacity” with the island's top politicians, the American Institute in Taiwan (Ait), the U.S. Embassy in Taipei, reported. In the wake of the presidential election won by William Lai, former National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, former Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg and AIT President Laura Rosenberger will visit starting tomorrow to meet “a number of prominent political figures” and the Congratulations We thank the US people in Taiwan for the success of the vote.
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In response to Tokyo's congratulations on “the regional elections on the Chinese island of Taiwan,” China also sent “solemn statements” to the Japanese foreign minister. The Chinese Embassy in Rising Sun also emphasized in a statement in this case that “this is a serious interference in China's internal affairs, a clear violation of the “One China” principle and a clear contradiction to the spirit of the four political parties “Documents between China and Japan”.
And so Taiwan called on China to “face reality” and respect the election results. The Foreign Ministry, it said in a statement, “calls on the Beijing authorities to respect the election results, face reality and abandon plans to suppress Taiwan so that positive interactions between the two sides of the Strait can resume in the right way.” “.