Resolving the Taiwan question is a matter for the Chinese people and Chinese people only that brooks no external interference, said Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Guo Jiakun on Monday.
Guo made the statement at a regular press briefing in Beijing in response to a media query about the U.S. administration's newly released national security strategy.
Noting that win-win cooperation is the only viable way forward for relations between China and the United States, Guo urged the U.S. side to make joint efforts with China to maintain steady development of bilateral ties.
"China always believes that China and the U.S. stand to gain from cooperation and lose from confrontation. Upholding mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation is the right way for China and the U.S. to get along with each other and is the only right and realistic choice. China stands ready to work with the U.S. to sustain steady development of bilateral relationship and at the same time will firmly defend its sovereignty, security and development interests," Guo said.
"We hope the U.S. will work with China in the same direction, act on the important common understandings reached between the heads of state of the two countries, step up dialogue and cooperation, properly manage differences, promote steady, sound and sustainable development of China-U.S. relations, and inject more certainty and stability into the world," he said.
The spokesman stressed that Taiwan is China's Taiwan and is an inalienable part of China's territory, and that the Taiwan question is at the core of China's core interests and the primary red line that must not be crossed in handling China-U.S. relations.
"Resolving the Taiwan question is a matter for the Chinese people themselves which brooks no external interference. The U.S. side needs to earnestly abide by the one-China principle and the three China-U.S. joint communiques, honor its leaders' commitment, handle the Taiwan question with extra prudence, stop abetting and aiding separatist forces' attempt to seek secession and resist reunification through military buildup. China's determination and will to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity are unwavering," said the spokesman.
Resolving Taiwan question is matter for Chinese people: spokesman
