Office of the Taiwan Affairs Committee of the State Council: The US should abide by the One China principle and the provisions of the Three Joint Communiqus between China and the US, and oppose "Taiwan independence".

On May 14, the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council held a routine press conference. A reporter asked: The American magazine "Foreign Policy" recently published an article by an American diplomatic expert titled "Trump Should Restrain Taiwan", pointing out that the Trump administration should clearly tell Lai Ching-te that the United States opposes Taiwan's "independence" and take early action to restrain Lai from provoking the mainland, to prevent the Lai administration from making a mistake and dragging the United States into a disastrous war. What is your comment on this? Spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, Chen Binhua, said that recently, more and more foreign media, experts, and scholars have expressed concern and condemnation of the extreme danger and harm of Lai Ching-te's provocation of "Taiwan independence". The current situation in the Taiwan Strait is complex and severe, the root of which lies in the Lai Ching-te administration's refusal to acknowledge the "1992 Consensus" that embodies the One China principle, colluding with external forces to provoke "independence". Chen Binhua emphasized that the Taiwan issue is purely China's internal affair, and resolving the Taiwan issue is a matter for the Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. The United States should abide by the One China principle and the provisions of the three Sino-US joint communiques, and oppose "independence".