US should oppose 'Taiwan independence': Haig

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US should oppose 'Taiwan independence': Haig

The United States should reiterateits stance to adhere to the "one-China" policy and oppose the "independence of Taiwan", said Alexander Haig, former US state secretary Tuesday in Beijing.

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The United States should reiterateits stance to adhere to the "one-China" policy and oppose the "independence of Taiwan", said Alexander Haig, former US state secretary Tuesday in Beijing.

Haig made this remark during his speech in the international symposium on Sino-US- European Relations in the New Century: Opportunities and Challenges.

In response to a question, Haig said he remembered that when former US President Richard Milhous Nixon visited China in 1971, Zhou Enlai, the Chinese former premier, stressed that the Taiwan issue was the core issue of Sino-US relations.

And later the two nations published the three joint communiquesand exchanged views from time to time, said Haig, adding that the United States should reiterate its stance when problems emerge.

Xiong Guangkai, deputy chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and president of China Society for International Strategic Studies (CIISS), said it was of vital importance for Sino-US relations that the United States stick to its promise and adhere to the "one-China" policy.

There is only one China in the world and Taiwan is one part of it, said Xiong.

During the discussion, Chinese participants said they supportedthe announcement that the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council sent Monday when commenting on Chen Shui-bian's separatist activity seeking "Taiwan independence" through a referendum on a new "constitution".

They said they opposed the Taiwan authorities led by Chen conducting separatist activity through advocating a referendum.

The three-day symposium is co-sponsored by CIISS and the HotungInstitute for International Relations. About 150 politicians, experts and academics from 15 nations attended the meeting.

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