BEIJING, May 24 (ABC): The United States should abide by the one-China principle and stipulations in the three China-U.S. joint communiques, and stop obscuring and hollowing out the one-China principle, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Monday in response to recent remarks by U.S. State Department Spokesperson Ned Price.
In a social media post, Price said that China continues to misrepresent U.S. policy, and that the United States remains committed to its longstanding, bipartisan one-China policy, guided by the so-called “Taiwan Relations Act,” Three Joint Communiques, and Six Assurances.
Wang said that Price’s comments are a distortion of facts and history.
The Taiwan question is the most important and sensitive issue in China-U.S. relations. The core of the Taiwan question is “one China.” There is but one China in the world, Taiwan is a part of China, and the government of the People’s Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China.
“This is the core concept of the one-China principle, which has become the consensus of the international community and the basic norm governing international relations,” Wang said.
A total of 181 countries, including the United States, have established diplomatic relations with China on the basis of recognizing the one-China principle, he added.
In history, the Taiwan question was the biggest obstacle to the normalization of China-U.S. relations. That’s because China firmly adhered to the one-China principle and would never make any compromises or concessions on this issue, Wang said.