China’s New Year begins with another mention of “unified Taiwan” Taiwan’s Land Commission: rejects the Communist Party’s “one country, two systems”

At the beginning of the New Year 2021, the relevant departments of Taiwan and mainland China made their respective statements on cross-strait relations. Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council responded to media questions in writing on the evening of January 1, stressing that “the Republic of China is a sovereign state, and Taiwan has never been part of the People’s Republic of China” and that the people of Taiwan are firmly opposed to non-peaceful, non-democratic actions, and have explicitly rejected the Communist Party’s “one country, two systems “I hope that the other side of the Taiwan Strait rational and pragmatic view of this fact.

Earlier in the day, Liu Jieyi, director of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, and Zhang Zhijun, president of China’s mainland Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, delivered simultaneous New Year messages. Both stressed cross-strait peace and “promoting the reunification process”, warning that “Taiwan independence” is “a desperate path that will only bring profound harm to Taiwan”, saying “The unification cannot be reversed.

And Wang Yifu, president of the National Taiwan Studies Association of China, who has been in office for less than a month, said at a seminar on cross-strait relations on December 29 that the Chinese mainland’s general policy toward Taiwan has several items that cannot be shaken, including adherence to the “one-China” principle, adherence to the “1992 Consensus The “one China” principle, the “1992 Consensus” and the “peaceful reunification, one country, two systems” basic policy. He also claimed that “it is absolutely intolerable to fully delude the central government’s major policy on Taiwan and deny the achievements of Taiwan’s work”. Taiwan’s Central News Agency reported that Wang’s statement has triggered the association of “armed unification” and other hawkish remarks that are likely to be suppressed in the future.

Taiwan’s Land Commission said that the Beijing authorities have recently repeatedly publicized their unilateral political claims about Taiwan, while continuously using military and diplomatic intimidation and suppression and social infiltration and division to deliberately create cross-strait confrontation. The Land Commission pointed out that the Taiwan government’s policy position of promoting peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait has been consistent.