The Communist Celebration of China, through its Foreign Ministry and state propaganda outlets, threatened House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and America in basic on Thursday with “strong and resolution procedures” in action to McCarthy’s meeting with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen.
McCarthy and Tsai fulfilled at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California on Wednesday, a brief stop for Tsai on her method back to Taiwan from visits to allies in Central America. In remarks before journalism, McCarthy lauded Taiwan as a “effective democracy, a flourishing economy, and an international leader in health and science.”
“And whether it’s our deep business ties, strong people-to-people relationships, or shared worths, our cooperation with individuals of Taiwan continue to expand through discussion and exchange,” Speaker McCarthy guaranteed.
Tsai used the opportunity to warn that “democracy is under risk” around the globe, requiring uniformity amongst the country’s free states. The Taiwanese president pointed out President Reagan’s guidance: “To preserve peace, we should be strong.”
Taiwan is a sovereign island state off the coast of China whose government is democratically chosen. In its 2023 annual report, the NGO Liberty House ranked Taiwan as one of the world’s freest societies. The Communist Party of China incorrectly claims Taiwan is a “province” of China and identifies Tsai and other elected government authorities on the island as “separatist” criminals. Chinese diplomacy needs any country establishing a diplomatic connection to Beijing to reject the presence of a sovereign Taiwan. Under President Jimmy Carter, the United States picked to do so, allowing China a federal government presence through its embassies in America and denying one to Taiwan.
Despite the official policy, American politicians routinely engage in “informal” exchanges with Taipei, such as McCarthy’s conference with Tsai, and Washington has for years greenlit sales of military hardware to the island, outraging the Communist Party.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry published an extensive declaration on Thursday condemning McCarthy, Tsai, and America normally for allowing Tsai into the country to meet with its federal government authorities. America “supplied a platform for Tsai to make separatist remarks looking for ‘Taiwan self-reliance,'” outraging Beijing, an unnamed Foreign Ministry spokesperson charged.
“Such acts have seriously breached the one-China principle and the arrangements of the 3 China-U.S. joint communiques, seriously infringed upon China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” the spokesperson charged, “and sent out seriously incorrect signals to the separatist forces for ‘Taiwan independence.’ China strongly opposes and strongly condemns the acts.”
The “one-China principle” is Beijing’s claim that Taiwan is a province of China, which the United States does not abide by. Washington follows the “one-China Policy,” which mentions that there is only one China on the planet however does not clarify if the title applies to the Republic of China (Taiwan) or the People’s Republic of China.
The Foreign Ministry implicated Washington of having “obstinately sticked [sic] to the method of ‘using Taiwan to include China,’ and breached the dedications it had made.”
“Taiwan independence’ is absolutely irreconcilable with peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait, and it is a path to nowhere,” the representative stated, concluding that America must “stop going further down the wrong and harmful course.”
Asked about the exchange between Tsai and McCarthy at her routine press instruction on Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning restated the outrage of her federal government and called any acknowledgment of Tsai “an egregiously wrong signal to the ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist forces.”
“China will take strong and resolute steps to protect our sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Mao threatened.
China’s National Individuals’s Congress (NPC), the communist rubber-stamp legislature, also provided a similar statement threatening the United States and Taiwan, an unusual relocation for the body.
“Taiwan has no other status in international law than becoming part of China,” the NPC said. “The action of McCarthy, the third highest-ranking authorities of the U.S. government, has actually seriously broken the dedication made by the United States to China on the Taiwan concern and sent seriously incorrect signals to separatist forces seeking ‘Taiwan self-reliance.'”
“Any schemes for ‘utilizing Taiwan to include China’ and for supporting or conniving ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist forces are doomed to stop working,” the NPC alerted. “Any acts ‘looking for independence by obtaining foreign support’ and weakening nationwide reunification are bound to be brought to trial.”
The state-run Global Times paper released a short article on Thursday slightly threatening America normally for Speaker McCarthy’s look with Tsai.
“Do not state you have not been alerted. How many times do Americans need to be advised of this sentence?” the editorial asked, deriding McCarthy as a presumably disgraced politician seeking attention in the “most inexpensive and most damaging way.”
“Any Chinese with conscience and self-confidence will be mad at Tsai’s behavior of kowtowing to the US, offering out the Taiwan island and weakening cross-Straits relations, and will feel embarrassed of foreign political leaders who excuse and support Taiwan secessionists,” the state publication declared.
In a separate editorial, the Global Times cautioned that both Tsai and McCarthy, and America normally, would “surely taste the bitter fruits” of their meeting.
China Daily, another government-run paper, described the Tsai conference as committing “irreversible damage to the Sino-U.S. relationship.”
“Tsai must recognize that rather than being a [sic] honored visitor she is simply seen by her hosts as an useful piece on the US video game board,” the paper advised.