Chen Binhua, a spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, commented on Wednesday on the M503 flight route adjustment aimed at easing air traffic congestion and enhancing aviation safety, stating that it is a normal part of work in mainland's civil aviation airspace management, and any attempt to hype it up is doomed to fail.
"The M503 route lies within the Shanghai flight information region. Connecting the M503 route with the W121 route is a normal work in the mainland's civil aviation airspace management and in line with ICAO's standards. There is no need to consult with the Taiwan region at all," Chen pointed out at a press conference in Beijing.
Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities claim that the flight route adjustment exacerbates tensions between the island and mainland and violates relevant regulations of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
"The DPP authorities use the opportunity for political manipulation, slander and smear the mainland, aiming to confuse and deceive the people on the island and incite hostility and opposition across the Taiwan Strait. That attempt finds little support and is doomed to be in vain," he stressed.
Taiwan authorities' hype of mainland's flight route change doomed to fail: mainland spokesman
The United States cannot legitimize an operation that attacked Venezuela and captured its president, a Chinese scholar said Sunday.
On Saturday, the United States launched a large-scale strike on Venezuela, during which Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife were 'captured and flown out of Venezuela' according to a post by U.S. President Donald Trump on his Truth Social account.
Teng Jianqun, director of the Center for Diplomatic Studies at Hunan Normal University, said in an interview with China Global Television Network (CGTN) that the aim of this operation is to take full control of Venezuela’s natural resources.
"I don't think the United States can legitimize this operation to take custody of the president of Venezuela. And also I don't think the United States can legitimize its any action in taking the oil reserves of that country. This is actually a very dangerous game played by the Trump administration. And of course, the United States would like to take full control of that country and to take full control of the natural resources, especially the large reserve of oil in Venezuela," said Teng.
Teng said Venezuela is not an isolated case but a common practice by the United States. The United States launched an invasion of Panama on Dec. 20, 1989, which continued until January 1990, with the stated objective of capturing Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega on charges of drug trafficking and organized crime.
"We still remember the so-called sentence of the former president of Panama in the late 1980s. And this time, the president of Venezuela will be under some judicial condition (judicial proceedings) for the so-called drug trafficking and some other crimes. So I think this is not a single case for the Venezuela country, but also this is actually a practice by the United States -- to use force, to use so-called justice under law against any leaders in Latin America and the Caribbean waters," he said.
US cannot legitimize operation against Venezuela: Chinese scholar
