Chinese ambassador warns UK not to cross ‘red lines’ over Taiwan

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Zheng Zeguang says Britain would face serious consequences if it were to ‘follow in the footsteps of the US’

In the meantime, a group of senior parliamentarians from the Commons foreign affairs committee have been preparing for a visit to Taipei later this year, which Zheng has vehemently opposed.

“The Taiwan issue has always been a sensitive issue at the centre of China-UK relations,” Zheng wrote in the Guardian opinion piece, reminding London of the Sino-UK joint communique signed in 1972, when the two countries began to exchange ambassadors. The UK has its own version of “one-China policy”, which means that it does not have full diplomatic relations with Taiwan.

“This history must never be forgotten and pledges should be honoured,” Zheng urged, adding that Beijing’s “one-China principle” is the “political foundation for the development of relations between China and all countries in the world”. China and the UK began exchanging ambassadors in 1972, following the singing of a bilateral agreement. London also closed down its consulate in Taipei that same year.

, the British government then “acknowledged the position of the government of the PRC [People’s Republic of China] that Taiwan was a province of China and recognised the PRC government as the sole legal government of China”., this position remains “the basis” of London’s relationship with Taipei. “We do not deal with the Taiwan authorities on a government-to-government basis, and we avoid any act which could be taken to imply recognition,” it said.

 

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