SINGAPORE — A senior Chinese general lashed out at United States Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin on Saturday (June 3), accusing him of “seriously distorting the facts and truth” of Taiwan’s status.
At the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Lieutenant-General Jing Jianfeng, vice-chief of the Central Military Commission’s Joint Staff Department, said Mr Austin had tried to “pull out of Beijing’s one-China principle”.
“First, there’s only one China in the world, and Taiwan is a sacred and inalienable part of Chinese territory.“Third, it is the common aspiration and sacred responsibility of all Chinese people, including our Taiwan compatriots, to complete the reunification of the motherland.” “It has frequently transited through the Taiwan Strait to flex muscles and induced other countries to interfere in the Taiwan question.”that the US network of friendly countries in Asia would defend against coercion, especially in the Taiwan Strait.
Like most countries, the US does not recognise Taiwan as a sovereign state. It also opposes Taiwanese independence.
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