A joint statement by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping in support of the One China principle will not change relations with Taiwan. This opinion was expressed by Alexei Chepa, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs.
“This will not lead to a break in relations between Russia and Taiwan. The fact is that we adhere to a certain policy of relations with China, relations with Taiwan, and the policy has not changed one step at a time and has not changed for many years. If China consistently claims “one China”, and we have been hearing this for many years, however, this has never given us a reason to carry out some kind of confrontational work against either China or Taiwan,” he said in an interview with “Gazeta.Ru”.
Chepa noted that Xi Jinping’s “One China” statement is a forward-looking plan for the unification of the Chinese people. He stressed that this does not mean that someone provokes certain actions from China.
Earlier in the day, Taiwan protested and condemned the joint Russian-Chinese statement adopted by the leaders of the two states, in which Moscow supports the “one China” principle and opposes the island’s independence.
The Taiwan Foreign Ministry stressed that “Taiwan and the PRC are not subordinate to each other, and the PRC government has never ruled it.”
On February 4, Putin and Xi Jinping signed a joint statement on international relations entering a new era and the global sustainable development of international relations. The statement also refers to the intention of Moscow and Beijing to resist outside interference in the internal affairs of sovereign countries.
Official relations between the central government of the PRC and its island province were interrupted in 1949, after the Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek, defeated in a civil war with the Chinese Communist Party, moved to Taiwan. Business and informal contacts between the island and mainland China resumed in the late 1980s. Since the early 1990s, the parties began to contact through non-governmental organizations.
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