State Council Taiwan Affairs Office: Only by achieving complete reunification with the motherland can Taiwan enjoy everlasting peace.

The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council held a routine press conference. A reporter asked: According to Taiwan media reports, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration in 2026 allocated nearly 950 billion New Taiwan Dollars for defense, an increase of about three times compared to the early days of the DPP coming to power in 2016. Public opinion on the island criticized this as squandering a huge amount of money that should have been used to improve people's livelihoods on meaningless military preparations. What is your comment on this? Spokesperson Chen Binhua stated that since the DPP came to power, they have persistently adhered to the "Taiwan independence" separatist position, continuously colluding with external forces to engage in "provocation for independence". They have intensified the squandering of the blood and sweat of the people of Taiwan for the sake of the one-party political private interests, willingly paying protection fees to external forces, and rushing recklessly down the path of impoverishing the people. "Taiwan independence" and peace in the Taiwan Strait are incompatible; seeking independence through military means will only lead Taiwan step by step into the abyss of disaster, turning the people of Taiwan into pawns of "Taiwan independence". The future of Taiwan, the security and interests of Taiwan compatriots are always linked to the peaceful development of cross-strait relations and the reunification of the motherland. Only by opposing "Taiwan independence" separatism can the Taiwan Strait be peaceful and secure, and only by achieving complete reunification of the motherland can Taiwan maintain everlasting peace!