“Only when China is fully reunified can there be true peace across the Taiwan Strait,” Wang Yi, China's foreign minister, said at the UN General Assembly. He ...
“The one-China principle has become a basic norm in international relations.” He said Beijing would “take the most forceful steps to oppose external interference”. China underscored its commitment on Saturday to its claim to Taiwan, telling world leaders that anyone who gets in the way of its determination to reunify with the self-governing island would be “crushed by the wheels of history”.
Addressing the U.N. on Saturday on behalf of President Xi Jinping, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi described Taiwan as China's sovereign territory since ...
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"Only when China is fully reunified can there be true peace across the Taiwan Strait," Wang Yi, China's foreign minister, said at the UN General Assembly.
Taiwan is a core issue of the country's policy, and Wang's appearance -- instead of his boss, Chinese leader Xi Jinping -- was a signal that the speech was not a major one. The language, while forceful, was not out of the realm of the normal for China. China underscored its commitment to its claim to Taiwan, telling world leaders that anyone who gets in the way of its determination to reunify with the self-governing island would be "crushed by the wheels of history."