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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Summons U.S. Ambassador to China to Lodge Stern Representations and Strong Protests against Nancy Pelosi's Visit to China's Taiwan

2022-08-03 17:10

On the late night of August 2, 2022, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng was instructed to summon U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns for an emergency meeting, and lodged, on behalf of the Chinese government, stern representations and strong protests with the U.S. side against U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to China's Taiwan region.

Xie Feng said Pelosi’s action in defiance of  the universal condemnation is a deliberate provocation and a playing with fire. It is a serious violation of the one-China principle and the provisions of the three China-U.S. joint communiqués. It has a severe impact on the political foundation of China-U.S. relations, and seriously infringes on China's sovereignty and territorial integrity. It gravely undermines peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait, and sends a seriously wrong signal to the separatist forces for "Taiwan independence". The move is extremely egregious in nature and will have extremely serious consequences. China will not sit idly by.

The U.S. government must be held accountable. For quite some time, the United States has said one thing but done the opposite, constantly distorted, altered, obscured and hollowed out the one-China principle in an attempt to cross the red line and make "breakthroughs", and played the "Taiwan card" by hook or by crook. The U.S. even went further to delete such key expressions as "Taiwan is a part of China" from the its State Department website, put Taiwan in its so-called "Indo-Pacific strategy", blatantly upgrade its ties with Taiwan, increase arms sales to the Taiwan region, openly clamor for helping Taiwan improve "asymmetric military capability" and support separatist activities for "Taiwan independence".

Instead of restraining Pelosi's willful behavior and stopping her retrogressive and perverse acts, the U.S. government has connived at  her having her own way, which escalated tensions across the Taiwan Strait and seriously undermined China-U.S. relations.

Xie Feng pointed out that the U.S. side must pay the price for its wrongdoings. China will take necessary actions and respond with firm countermeasures. We mean what we say. Anyone who attempts to seek political gains by manipulating the Taiwan question will go nowhere. Anyone who harbors the illusion of gaining political legacy by playing the "Taiwan card" will be nailed to the historical pillar of ignominy. The United States should immediately correct its mistakes and take credible measures to undo the adverse impact of Pelosi's visit to Taiwan. The U.S. must not go further down the wrong path, escalating tensions and making the situation across the Taiwan Strait and China-U.S. relations irreparable.

The Chinese side once again urges the United States to stop its dangerous moves before it's too late, stop stirring up troubles on the Taiwan question, stop conniving at and abetting "Taiwan independence" separatist forces, stop playing the "Taiwan card" in any form and using Taiwan to contain China, and stop meddling on Taiwan and interfering in China's internal affairs. The United States must take concrete actions to strictly observe the one-China principle and the provisions of the three China-U.S. joint communiqués, deliver on the "five noes" commitment made by the U.S. leadership (i.e. not seek a "new Cold War"; not seek to change China's system; the revitalization of its alliances is not against China; not support "Taiwan independence"; not look for conflict with China), and not go further down the wrong and dangerous path.

Xie Feng stressed that the trend of the times cannot be reversed, and the will of the people  is not to be defied. Those who play with fire will perish by it. Taiwan is China's Taiwan, and will eventually return to the embrace of the motherland. The Chinese people will not be scared by evils, intimidated by pressure, nor misled by fallacies. In the minds of the Chinese people, nothing is more sacred than protecting China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and nothing is more important than safeguarding national unity and realizing national reunification. No country, no forces and no individual should ever underestimate the firm resolve, strong will and great capability of the Chinese government and people to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity and to achieve national reunification and rejuvenation.

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