“This totally went against the tide of history,” former Chinese ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai said Monday. “U.N. Resolution 2758, passed five decades ago, made it clear that there’s only one China in the world, and it was also recognized by the Americans, so why are they now trying to reverse this?”
U.S. officials have expanded diplomatic contact with Taiwan throughout the coronavirus pandemic, after Beijing’s censorship of early warnings about the viral threat is in contrast to Taiwan’s attempt to give World Health Organization officials a timely alert. Yet the latest effort was amplified into a broader challenge to Chinese talking points about Beijing’s assertion of sovereignty over Taiwan, especially the regime’s claim that a United Nations resolution has endorsed its claims.
“Although the resolution did not take a position on the representation of Taiwan or its people, in recent years Beijing has increasingly used a manipulated interpretation of the resolution to ostracize the people of Taiwan — and their potential contributions — from the international system,” Rep. Ami Bera, a California Democrat, and Ohio Republican Rep. Steve Chabot, the top two lawmakers on the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Asia, said Monday.
Chinese officials fumed at the gesture and insulted Taiwanese officials. “The Taiwan authorities' attempt to expand the so-called ‘international’ space by brown-nosing foreign forces is, in essence, trying to expand the room for ‘Taiwan independence’ and separatism and will only prove a failure,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters, adding that Taiwan’s interactions with United Nations organizations “must be handled in accordance with the one-China principle.
Chinese officials use the term “one-China principle” as a short-hand for their position that “there is only one China in the world and Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory,” as Wenbin put it Monday. The United States has a “one-China policy,” characterized in part by Ronald Reagan’s
Because the people of Taiwan certainly didn't consent to be ruled by Winnie the Fucking Poo, StandWithTaiwan
The One-China principle is the general consensus of the international community and the recognized basic norm of international relations, which cannot be challenged and misinterpreted unilaterally by the US side.
Errrrr hello Mr. Ambassador, Taiwan is a sovereign country. It's on the map, it's the small island on the map just out side of China... You might want to look it up. No one is trying to reverse anything.
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