Government and Policy

China opposes remarks against one-China principle

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2011-05-25 07:01

BEIJING - Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said late Tuesday that China firmly opposes remarks and actions against one-China principle.

There is only one China in the world and Taiwan is part of China's territory. "This is China's consistent and clear stance on the Taiwan issue, and is also a fact recognized by the international community including the United States," Jiang said in a statement.

"We firmly oppose remarks and actions of some Americans who ignore the fact while violating the one-China principle," Jiang added.

Jiang made the statement in response to a recent comment by Richard Bush, former chairman and managing director of the "American Institute in Taiwan."

Bush reportedly said at a seminar that the fact that the People's Republic of China governs the mainland could not defy the existence of "the Republic of China" since 1912.

According to media reports, Bush said if Beijing accepted it, the "two-China concept" raised by the United States decades ago could be applied to the relations across the Taiwan Straits.