China censures upcoming meeting between Japan, Chinese Taipei
China says it opposes “any form of official interaction” with the Chinese Taipei, ahead of a summit between Japan and the self-ruled island.
During a press briefing on Wednesday, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin warned that Japan should stop interfering in China’s internal affairs.
“The Taiwan issue touches on the political foundation of China-Japan relations... (Japan) should be especially cautious in its words and deeds,” Wang Wenbin said.
The remarks served as a response to media reports that Japan and the Chinese Taipei’s ruling parties would hold their first bilateral security talks on Friday.
Spokeswoman Hua Chunying for China’s Foreign Ministry has also said, “The Chinese side firmly opposes all forms of official interactions between Taiwan and countries having diplomatic ties with China.”
Lawmakers from the United States, the Chinese Taipei and Japan, including former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, met in July to discuss greater support for the island.
At the time, Beijing dismissed the meeting as “negative and wrong in both form and content” and warned that agreement on the status of Taipei sat at the “political foundation” of China’s ties with Japan.
US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga affirmed “the importance of stability of the Taiwan Straits” during Suga’s visit to the White House in April.
That had been the first mention of the island in such a joint statement since both countries switched formal relations from Taipei to Beijing in the 1970s.
The US, too, recognizes Chinese sovereignty over Chinese Taipei, but in an attempted affront to China and in violation of its own official policy, America constantly bypasses Beijing to sell weapons to the island and stage the shows of military force.
In January, days before the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, the then US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that he was lifting restrictions on contacts between US officials and their Taiwanese counterparts.
The Biden administration has also taken a similarly hawkish stance toward Beijing.
China has warned the United States not to play with fire over Chinese Taipei, as Washington moves to establish more diplomatic contact with officials in the self-ruled island in violation of Chinese sovereignty.
The United States’ relations with China have grown increasingly tense over the past few years. Washington has also clashed with Beijing over trade, Hong Kong, the South China Sea, and the coronavirus pandemic.
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