‘Life-or-death question’: US must grasp Taiwan’s importance to China, former envoy Cui Tiankai says
2023-11-20 09:31:24 source：South China Morning Post
November 18, 2023
China-US ties are too “complex” to be reset by a single meeting between the leaders of the two countries, and the Taiwan issue has to be acknowledged first as a “life-or-death question” before true progress is possible, according to veteran Chinese diplomat Cui Tiankai.
Speaking exclusively to the Post just ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s face-to-face talks to his American counterpart Joe Biden in San Francisco last week, China’s longest-serving ambassador to the United States also expressed confidence in Hong Kong’s future as an investment hub and international financial centre despite being caught up in geopolitical tensions.
“The Taiwan question is a matter of national sovereignty, territorial integrity and national unity. So this is something like a life-or-death question for China … there’s no room for concession,” he told Talking Post with Yonden Lhatoo.
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