CHINA / US Policy
China: US misreads Taiwan law
(Xinhua/Agencies)
Updated: 2005-03-16 10:38
China said yesterday that its anti-secession law had been misunderstood
by the United States.
"They don't fully understand the significance of this law," Chinese
Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said.
"We reiterate that this law is a law for peace," Liu said. "It's
conducive for maintaining cross-strait relations and the stability of the
Asia-Pacific region and the growth of relations between China, Europe,
the United States and other countries."
"If they realize that, they will not have other opinions on such a law,"
he added.
Washington on Monday said the law "does not serve the cause of peace and
stability" in the region.
White House press secretary Scott McClellan said the law "runs counter to
recent progress in cross-strait relations."
US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said it "only serves to
harden positions."
Liu also said that while the cross-strait situation is of interest to
many countries, Taiwan is the internal affair of China.
A spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council yesterday
criticized the island's Mainland Affairs Council for its distortion of
the Anti-Secession Law.
The spokesman said the MAC aimed to deceive Taiwan compatriots and
international opinion by distorting the law as a move to change the
status quo in the Taiwan Strait and provide "a blank check" for
"annexation of Taiwan" by force in a statement it issued on Monday.
It is dangerous for the MAC to try to once again incite confrontation
across the Taiwan Strait and create a pretext for "Taiwan independence"
secessionist forces to provoke incidents, the spokesman said.
China's parliament voted unanimously with two abstentions on Monday to
enact the law, which aims to improve the cross-strait relations, promote
peaceful reunification of the motherland, and oppose and check "Taiwan
independence" secessionist forces' attempts to secede Taiwan from China,
he said.
The law aims to maintain the peace and stability across the strait,
safeguard China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, he added.
The employment of non-peaceful means to prevent Taiwan's secession from
the motherland, which is prescribed in the law as the last resort,
targets "Taiwan independence" secessionists but never Taiwan compatriots,
he said.
"We reiterate that we will never stop our efforts to improve cross-strait
relations, never change our determination to strive for a peaceful
reunification of the country, and never waver in our stance against
'Taiwan independence'," he said.
The spokesman urged Taiwan authorities to stop their secessionist
attempts right away, return to the "1992 Consensus" on the one-China
principle, and do things favorable to the peaceful and steady development
of cross-strait relations.
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