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China Opposes US Interference With Internal Affairs, Ambassador Says
Chinese Ambassador to the United States Yang Jiechi has been instructed to make solemn representations with the US government with regard to the US side allowing Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan transit visits to the United States.
During a meeting he called on Thursday with US Under Secretary of State Marc Grossman, Ambassador Yang stated that the Chinese government has always been firmly opposed to official exchanges and contacts in any form between the United States and Taiwan.
The U.S. government, however, allowed Chen Shui-bian a transit visit to the New York City recently, and another one to Houston early in June, and in the meantime relaxed restrictions on Chen's activities in the United States, Yang noted.
Taking this opportunity, Chen conducted a series of public activities to peddle his proposition of separatism, he added.
The Ambassador pointed out that those erroneous practices by the US government have seriously violated the three China-US joint communiques and the one-China policy the US side has declared to follow, and fueled the tendency of "Taiwan independence."
This constitutes a rampant interference in China's internal affairs, to which the Chinese government and the Chinese people have expressed strong indignation and firm opposition, he emphasized.
Yang stressed that Taiwan has always been the most important and sensitive core issue in Sino-US relations. The US side, following its recent agreement to sell to Taiwan a large amount of weapons, went further to allow Chen Shui-bian to take transit visits to carry out activities aimed at splitting China.
Such an approach by the US side, he said, poses a provocation to the Chinese people and their grand aspiration for peaceful reunification of the motherland, and the Chinese government and the Chinese people will never give in.
Yang called on the US government to realize fully the serious consequences of Chen's transit visits to the United States, to correct its mistakes immediately, to adhere to the one-China policy, the three China-US joint communiques and relevant commitments the US side has made, and to stop using the Taiwan issue to meddle in China's internal affairs, so that further damages may be avoided in the relationship between the two countries.
During the meeting, Yang also made solemn presentations with the US government concerning recent meetings the US leaders and senior officials rendered to Dalai lama.
Yang pointed out that Dalai is not a religious figure at all, but a political exile who has long engaged in splitting-China activities in foreign countries.
The ambassador said that the US government has made clear commitments that it recognizes Tibet as part of China and will not support its independence. But in action, the US side has consistently run counter to the commitments and allow Dalai and his followers to conduct separatist activities in the United States. All this, he emphasized, has caused indignation of the Chinese government and the Chinese people.
Yang urged the US government to redress its mistakes, stop interfering with China's internal affairs with the Tibet issue, and take concrete measures to abide by the basic norms governing international relations so as to prevent the Sino-US relations from being further undermined.
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