On the evening of June 19, 2023, Director-General of the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs of the Foreign Ministry Yang Tao briefed Chinese and foreign media on U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to China.

In response to the United States linking the peaceful resolution of the Taiwan question with its "one-China policy", Yang Tao said that the Taiwan question has always been one of utmost importance in China-U.S. relations. The United States has made clear commitments on "one China" by acknowledging that there is but one China in the world, Taiwan is a part of China, and the Government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China”. These commitments are explicitly reflected in the three China-U.S. joint communiqués. This also means that the United States recognizes the true status quo of the Taiwan Strait, that is, there is but one China in the world, and both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to one and the same China, which the United States calls the "one-China policy". The U.S. "one-China policy" was originally straightforward, using only the three China-U.S. joint communiqués as the attributive words. But later the attributive words became more and more, and the "Taiwan Relations Act" and "Six Assurances to Taiwan" were added. Both the "Taiwan Relations Act" and the "Six Assurances to Taiwan" are unilaterally concocted by the U.S. side, not the consensus between China and the United States. China has resolutely opposed and refused to recognize them from the very beginning. There is also a move by the United States to link the peaceful resolution of the Taiwan question with its "one-China policy" and make it a core element of its "one-China policy". This is not a reaffirmation of or adherence to the U.S. political commitment to China, but a distortion of it.