The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council responded to the Mainland Affairs Council Chairman’s statement: adhere to the one-China principle and oppose Taiwan independence and separatism

China News Service, September 16. On September 16, the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council held a regular press conference. A reporter asked: Recently, Chairman Qiu Chuizheng of the Mainland Affairs Council said that the mainland is promoting the strategy of "exercising jurisdiction before reunification" against Taiwan through four major means: "internalization of administrative and judicial jurisdiction, the one-China principle in the international system, national treatment for Taiwanese people, and integration and development of offshore islands and mainland coastal cities." Taiwan's position is to insist that Taiwan's future must be jointly decided by the 23 million Taiwanese people. Any comment on this?

Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said that there is only one China in the world and Taiwan is an inalienable part of China’s territory. The historical and legal fact that both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to one China cannot be changed. The historical trend that the motherland will and will eventually be reunified is unstoppable. Taiwan's future and destiny can only and must be jointly determined by the more than 1.4 billion Chinese people, including Taiwan compatriots. The Democratic Progressive Party authorities stubbornly adhere to the separatist stance of "Taiwan independence", refuse to recognize the "1992 Consensus" that embodies the one-China principle, and deliberately interfere with and obstruct cross-Strait exchanges. This is completely contrary to the mainstream public opinion on both sides of the Taiwan Strait for peace, development, exchanges and cooperation, and has been jointly opposed by the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Our policies towards Taiwan are clear and consistent. We will firmly adhere to the one-China principle and the "1992 Consensus", resolutely oppose "Taiwan independence" separatism and external interference, continue to promote cross-Strait exchanges, cooperation and integrated development, enhance the interests and well-being of Taiwan compatriots, and firmly promote the process of reunification of the motherland. (China News Network "Yanxintai" Studio)