China urges the United States to stop intervening in the Taiwan regional leadership election of 2024 in any form and stop sending wrong signals to separatist forces advocating “Taiwan independence,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Thursday.
“There is only one China in the world, and Taiwan is an inalienable part of China,” Mao said, urging the U.S. side to abide by the one-China principle and the three China-U.S. joint communiques, properly handle Taiwan-related issues, stop any official exchanges with Taiwan, and avoid causing damages to China-U.S. relations, as well as peace and stability across the Taiwan Straits.
The U.S. blatantly made irresponsible remarks on the election, and China is strongly dissatisfied with and firmly opposed to such acts, Mao said, stressing that the Taiwan question is at the very core of China’s core interests and the first red line that must not be crossed in China-U.S. relations.
According to US policy Taiwan is a part of China, so by its own policy meddling in the Taiwan elections would be meddling in Chinas internal affairs.
This is not at all true. For around 75 years, the US has maintained an extremely carefully ambiguous policy, where it doesn’t exactly recognize Taiwan as a “country,” but also doesn’t agree that it is part of China. This careful ambiguity, coupled with carefully general statements about about “status quo” and “resolved by peaceful means” and “the United States makes available defense articles and services as necessary to enable Taiwan to maintain a sufficient self-defense capability” has been working so far.
For the US to endorse either the full “One China principle” as China defines it, or full Taiwanese independence, would be such a potential clusterfuck that they don’t do either one.
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It’s a masterstroke of diplomacy. You wouldn’t think it’d be possible to be honoring and respecting two completely incompatible points of view at the same time, on the world stage and with nuclear-tipped consequences if anything goes wrong, and yet there it is.
I mean what you call a masterstroke some might call a hypocritical attempt to destabilize China simply because it resists capitalist exploitation