CGTN America: International Community Support for One-China Policy
International support for China's response to Pelosi's visit to Taiwan has poured in from around the world. Chinese Foreign Ministry said governments and political parties in more than 160 countries have voiced support for China's position and reiterated their commitment to the one-China principle.
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CGTN America releases "International Community Support for One-China Policy"
"Our position is very clear," said U.N. Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres. "We abide by General Assembly resolutions, by the one-China policy, and that is the orientation that we have in everything we do."
Guterres stated the UN's official stance at a press conference on August 3. He was answering a question regarding U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to China's Taiwan Region.
International support for China's response to Pelosi's visit to Taiwan has poured in from around the world. Chinese Foreign Ministry said governments and political parties in more than 160 countries have voiced support for China's position and reiterated their commitment to the one-China principle.
China Media Group (CMG) Cross-Strait Radio published an article on Saturday entitled "The U.S. so-called 'Taiwan Relations Act' violates the one-China principle and is a piece of wastepaper."
The article says the one-China principle is a universal consensus by the international community and a basic norm in international relations, and the political foundation of China-U.S. relations. The three China-U.S. joint communiques signed in 1972 all stress the one-China principle, and that Taiwan is a part of China.
However, over the past 40 years, the United States has not been faithfully implementing the agreement. The U.S. has continually relaxed official contact restrictions with Taiwan, and increased arms sales to the Taiwan island by a total of more than $70 billion USD. The United States violated the August 17th Communique signed in 1982. The communique said the United States agreed to gradually reduce its arms sales to Taiwan.
The U.S. cited the 1979 "Taiwan Relations Act" as a pretext for the visit to Taiwan by U.S. House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi. Political analysts around the world have criticized her trip as "reckless," and even "dangerous." China has called the visit a "deliberate provocation" – a violation of the one-China principle, organized by U.S. politicians with partisan agendas that placed U.S. domestic politics above international law, Washington's international obligations, and decades of longstanding UN policy.
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