(17 Feb 2025)
RESTRICTIONS SUMMARY:
++BREAKING EMBARGO++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beijing – 17 February 2025
1. Wide of news conference
2. Wide of reporters
3. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Guo Jiakun, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson:
"The U.S. State Department updated its fact sheet on relations with Taiwan and gravely backpedaled in its position on Taiwan-related issues. This move severely violates the One China principle and the three China-U.S. Joint Communiqués, goes against international laws and basic norms of international relations, and sends a severely wrong signal to the separatist forces of Taiwan independence. This is another example of the U.S. clinging to its wrong policy of using Taiwan to contain China."
4. Close of reporter
5. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Guo Jiakun, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson:
"We urge the U.S. to immediately correct its wrongdoings, abide by the One China principle, and the three China-U.S. Joint Communiqués, handled the Taiwan issue with extra prudence, stop using Taiwan to contain China, stop upgrading its substantive relations with Taiwan, stop helping Taiwan expand the so-called international space, stop emboldening and supporting Taiwan independence, and avoid further damaging China-U.S. relations and peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait."
6. Various of news conference
STORYLINE:
China’s Foreign Ministry took issue on Monday with a revised U.S. government fact sheet that removed a line that had said that the United States does not support independence for Taiwan.
China’s foreign affairs ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said in Beijing on Monday that tthe U.S. has “gravely backpedaled” on its position on Taiwan and sent the wrong message to “separatist forces" on the island.
China says Taiwan is part of its territory and opposes American support and military sales to the self-governing island.
Guo said in the daily news briefing that the U.S. should stop supporting Taiwan independence.
China maintains that Taiwan is a province that should not have its own president or foreign relations.
Over the weekend, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te had said he would communicate more with the U.S. over President Donald Trump’s concerns over the chip industry and invest more in the U.S, hours after Trump ordered reciprocal tariffs on trade partners.
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