China News Agency, United Nations, January 7th. On the 7th, the spokesperson of the Chinese Permanent Mission to the United Nations made a statement on media reports that the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations will visit Taiwan.
The spokesman said that according to media reports, US Secretary of State Pompeo stated that Kraft, the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations, would visit Taiwan.
China firmly opposes this.
The spokesman said that there is only one China in the world, the government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China, and Taiwan is an inalienable part of Chinese territory.
The United States has also made a clear commitment to this in the three joint communiqués including the Sino-US "Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations.
China firmly opposes any form of official exchanges between the United States and Taiwan. This position is consistent and clear.
The spokesman said that the Taiwan issue concerns China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and it involves China's core interests.
The one-China principle is a broad consensus of the international community, and it is also the norm of international relations confirmed by the UN General Assembly Resolution 2758.
The US conducts political manipulation on the Taiwan issue and acts that harm China’s core interests will not succeed.
We want to remind the U.S. that "people who play fire will burn themselves."
The US will pay a heavy price for its wrongdoing.
China strongly urges the US to stop frantically provoking, stop creating new difficulties for Sino-US relations and bilateral cooperation in the United Nations, and stop going further and further on the wrong path.
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