Visiting US Vice President Dick Cheney said in
Beijing Tuesday
that the United States does not support "Taiwan Independence" and
is against any unilateral action from each side to change the
existing situation across the Taiwan Straits.?
Cheney made the remarks during the talks with his Chinese
counterpart Zeng Qinghong.
The United States realized the importance of the Taiwan issue to
US-China relations, and the US policy on that question was not
changed at all, Cheney said.
The US side sticks to the one-China policy based on the three
joint communiqués between the United States and China, Cheney
said.
Zeng introduced Chinese government's principled stance on the
Taiwan issue.
The very fact of the Taiwan issue is that there is only one
China in the world and Taiwan is part of China, the election result
in the island could not change that fact, Zeng said.
The Chinese government will continuously adhere to the policy of
peaceful reunification and the principle of "one country, two
systems."
China will spare no efforts to settle the Taiwan issue in a
peaceful way, but will never tolerate the "Taiwan
Independence."
Zeng urged the US side to honor its commitments, stop selling
weapons to Taiwan and not send any "wrong signals" to the "Taiwan
Independence" forces.
(Xinhua News Agency April 14, 2004)
