April 6, 2023

China will adopt firm and resolute measures to safeguard the sovereignty and territorial integrity in responding to the latest meeting between the regional leader of the Taiwan island and the US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy - an erroneous move that delivered a heavy blow to the already strained US-China relations, damaging the political foundation of the two countries and making the cross-Straits situation more intense. 

Chinese experts believe that it's inevitable that China will take countermeasures to such high-profile meeting that allowed US officials and congressional members' contact with Tsai Ing-wen, who is on a "transit" trip through the US. Such erroneous move gravely violated the one-China principle and the provisions of the three China-US joint communiqués, seriously infringed upon China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and sent seriously wrong signals to the separatist forces for "Taiwan independence," Chinese authorities said. 

Multiple Chinese authorities including China's top legislature, the Taiwan Work Office of CPC Central Committee, Chinese defense ministry and Chinese foreign ministry issued statements on early Thursday morning, condemning the Tsai-McCarthy meeting.

Read more:

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202304/1288655.shtml