China to ultimately achieve complete reunification: Chinese FM

China will ultimately achieve complete reunification, and Taiwan is bound to return to the embrace of the motherland, no one should underestimate the firm resolve, strong will and great capability of the Chinese people to defend our sovereignty and territorial integrity, said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in a written interview with Al Jazeera Media Network recently.

Addressing a question on the Taiwan question given U.S. continued arms sales to the island, Wang responded that Taiwan has been an inseparable part of China since ancient times. The Cairo Declaration jointly issued by the governments of China, the United States and the United Kingdom in 1943 clearly stated that Taiwan, which Japan had stolen from the Chinese, shall be restored to China. The Potsdam Declaration of 1945 to end World War II reiterated in Article 8 that “the terms of the Cairo Declaration shall be carried out.” UN General Assembly Resolution 2758 was another unequivocal recognition of the one-China principle. These legally-binding international instruments are constituents of the postwar international order. They have further consolidated the historical and legal basis of Taiwan being an inalienable part of Chinese territory.

The Taiwan question is entirely China's internal affair, and how to achieve national reunification is a matter for the Chinese people on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. "We will strive for peaceful reunification with the utmost effort and greatest sincerity. In the meantime, our bottom line is also clear: we will absolutely not allow anyone to separate Taiwan from China in any way," Wang said.

At present, the cross-Strait situation is stable on the whole. But it faces serious challenges as well. The biggest challenge comes from "Taiwan independence" separatist activities and external disruptions. The "Taiwan independence" elements are the troublemakers, and do the biggest harm to cross-Strait stability. Maintaining peace across the Strait inherently means resolutely opposing "Taiwan independence," Wang said.

Yet some countries are giving "Taiwan independence" separatists more and more weapons behind the scenes, in stark contrast to their calls for peace and stability of the Strait. These moves will only increase the risk of conflict and confrontation, and seriously undermine peace and stability in the Strait and the region as a whole, he added.

China will not sit on its hands with external disruptions. No one should underestimate the firm resolve, strong will and great capability of the Chinese people to defend our sovereignty and territorial integrity, he stressed.

As President Xi Jinping has stressed, complete reunification of the motherland is the shared aspiration of the people, the trend of the times and a historical inevitability, and no force can stop it. China will ultimately achieve complete reunification, and Taiwan is bound to return to the embrace of the motherland, Wang said.

China also firmly believes that Middle East countries and the international community will stay committed to the one-China principle and support the Chinese people's just cause of opposing "Taiwan independence" separatist activities and striving for national reunification, he said.

China to ultimately achieve complete reunification: Chinese FM

China to ultimately achieve complete reunification: Chinese FM

Hungarian officials, scholars, and media professionals have expressed their anticipation for greater cooperation between Hungary and China during Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to the Central European country, seeking to strengthen business ties, technological collaboration, and people-to-people connections.

President Xi arrived in Budapest on Wednesday for the state visit at the invitation of Hungarian President Tamas Sulyok and Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

Marton Nagy, Hungarian Minister for National Economy, expressed the desire to strengthen business ties and technological collaboration with China.

"We want to connect Hungarian and Chinese companies to improve relationships in logistics as well, and of course, digitalization is very important as well, and AI and so on. We want to stay open for investors and we believe in connectivity. This is not just related to trade or investment, but people-to-people friendship and connections," said Nagy.

Erno Pate, president of the Hungarian-Chinese Chamber of Economy, said that Xi's visit would catalyze a new era of economic engagement under the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

"I expect that economic relations will develop much more smoothly and vividly than in the first ten years of the BRI. So with this presidential visit, it's a good occasion to establish the basis of new development," said Pate.

Salat Gergely, lead researcher of the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs, underscored Hungary's aspirations to attract substantial Chinese investment to bridge the gap with Western Europe.

"I think the most important is the economic and technological cooperation. That is very important for Hungary because Hungary's national aim is to catch up with the Western Europe. For that we need FDI. We're quite sure that in the coming years, China will become our No.1 investor. We really need those jobs. We really need those investments. And they bring us high technology here that we like," said Gergely.

Kovacs Tamas, CEO of ATV Media Group in Hungary, commended the steadily strengthening bilateral ties over the past decade under the BRI.

"The two countries getting close and close in the last ten years started with the BRI initiated by Mr. Xi Jinping and the Chinese government announced this initiative in 2013. Of course, the Hungarian government announced the Opening to the East Policy. This is a good basis for the cooperation of the two countries," said Tamas.

Hungary is the last leg of Xi's current three-nation European tour, which has previously taken him to France and Serbia.

Xi's state visit to Hungary opens up rosy prospects for stronger cooperation