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The Taiwan question bears on China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and has nothing to do with so-called “democracy”.
2022-08-10 21:15

In disregard of China's resolute opposition, the US blatantly connived at House Speaker Pelosi's clumsy political farce in China's Taiwan region. In order to cover up her despicable act that seriously violates China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, Pelosi claimed that her visit to Taiwan was to honor the so-called “commitment to democracy”. The Taiwan authorities brazenly and hurriedly echoed the so-called “values of freedom and democracy”. Following suit, head of relevant Taipei representative office in the EU clamored about continuing to “hold aloft the torch of freedom and democracy”. These remarks completely confound black and white.

What is democracy? Respecting the will of the people and the running of the country by the people is true democracy. To serve one's selfish interests, ignoring increasing domestic problems and sneaking to China's Taiwan region for provocation is to use "democracy" as a cover. On the Taiwan question, resolutely safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity is the shared aspiration and strong will of the more than 1.4 billion Chinese people. If the US is really committed to democracy as it claims, it should listen to and respect the common aspiration of the Chinese people, who account for one fifth of the world's population, on the Taiwan question.As US Republican Congresswoman Majorie Greene has tweeted, Pelosi is “not staying in America and solving problems afflicting our people” and she is “obsessed with her own power she's held for decades while our entire country crumbles ... enough with this fake ‘courage’ defending democracy.”A survey conducted by the online newspaper udn.com in Taiwan found more than two thirds of the people in Taiwan not supportive of Speaker Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, saying that it will only undermine peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. It shows how hypocritical the "democracy" that Pelosi and the Taiwan authorities keep professing is.

Under the pretext of "democracy", wantonly violating other countries' sovereignty and interfering in their internal affairs is an old trick of the US to realize its geopolitical strategy, maintain global hegemony and bully other countries. For more than half a century, the US has repeatedly made unrepentant mistakes, and many countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America have suffered more than they could bear. What the US has been doing seriously violates the basic norms in international relations, undermines regional peace and stability, and fully exposes its hegemonic and bullying nature of attempting to hoodwink the public with its power. Is this the "contribution" that the US-style "democracy", advocated and advertised by the Taiwan authorities, has made to mankind!?

The people of the world can see clearly whether it is false democracy or true hegemony. The Taiwan question bears on China's sovereignty, territorial integrity, national reunification and national rejuvenation, and has nothing to do with so-called ‘democracy’. We will never allow the US and Taiwan authorities to collude with each other and act unscrupulously under the guise of "democracy". Pelosi's reckless and irresponsible visit to Taiwan and the hideousness of the DPP authorities can not change the historical and legal fact that Taiwan belongs to China. It will only prove once again the collapse of the so-called US "beacon of democracy" and the lack of support of the "Taiwan independence" separatist forces.

To resolve the Taiwan question and realize the complete reunification of the motherland is the shared aspiration of all the Chinese people and indispensable for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The will of the people is not to be defied. No forces can halt the process of China's complete reunification and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.


                 Spokesperson of Embassy of China in Belgium


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