Question: Recently, certain US officials deliberately distorted the UNGA Resolution 2758, and challenged the one-China consensus among the international community, which may cause other western countries to follow suit. What’s China’s comment?
Embassy Spokesperson: Upholding the one-China principle is the right thing to do. It has the overwhelming support of the international community and represents the trend of the times. The US lie, even told a thousand times, will not become truth.
As a signatory to the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation, the US is fully aware of the historical and legal facts that Taiwan belongs to China. Yet it openly challenges the post-WWII international order, as if it has “amnesia.” As a founding member of the UN and a permanent member of the Security Council, the US not only fails to take the lead in complying with a UNGA resolution, but repeatedly questions and misinterprets it, eroding the foundation of the UN and trampling on the principles of international law. It also attempts to mislead international public opinion with its own malicious distortions, and seeks to force its wrong stance upon the international community.
The US must stop fudging and hollowing out the one-China principle. Once the biggest obstacle to the normalisation of China-US relations, the Taiwan question had been fully resolved with the three China-US joint communiqués, and there should be no difference between the understanding and policies of the two sides. In the communiqués, the US clearly states that “the United States of America recognises the government of the People’s Republic of China as the only legal government of China” and that “the government of the United States of America recognises China’s position that there is only one China and Taiwan is part of China.” This is the political commitment of the US, the political foundation of China-US relations, and above all, the original and true meaning of the one-China policy of the US.
The fact that China and the US are still discussing the Taiwan question 45 years after the establishment of diplomatic relations is because the US keeps violating the one-China principle and the three China-US joint communiqués, and continues to interfere in China’s internal affairs and obstruct China’s reunification. With regard to UNGA Resolution 2758, the US has only the obligation to strictly abide by it, but no right to arbitrarily distort it or any privilege to act as the US sees fit.
We urge the US not to stand on the opposite side of the international community, not to stand on the opposite side of international justice, and not to stand on the opposite side of the basic norms of international relations. Any effort to play the “Taiwan card” will only backfire, and any attempt to “use Taiwan to contain China” will be a dead end.