Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities will only disgrace themselves by invoking an invalid treaty to mislead public opinion, Chen Binhua, spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said at a press conference in Beijing on Wednesday.
While rebuking a recent erroneous remarks made by a related department of the Taiwan authorities, Chen said the so-called Treaty of San Francisco was a product fabricated by the United States in collusion with certain countries after World War II, with an aim to seek a separate peace deal with Japan.
"From the very beginning, the Chinese government solemnly declared its firm stance of never recognizing it. There is only one China in the world, and Taiwan is part of China. A series of international legal documents, including the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation, all unequivocally affirmed China's sovereignty over Taiwan. The replacement of the Republic of China by the People's Republic of China constituted a change in government rather than a change in China's status as a subject of international law, and Taiwan's status as part of China remains unchanged. The DPP authorities are once again exploiting an invalid treaty to reheat the cliché that Taiwan and the mainland should not be subordinate to each other. Their attempts to confuse the public and mislead public opinion, challenge the internationally recognized one-China principle, utterly divorce from reality and will only bring disgrace upon themselves," Chen said.
Taiwan's DPP authorities only disgraces themselves by invoking invalid treaty: mainland spokesman
China's development has never been a "threat" to anyone but the source of growth advancing common development of all countries, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said at a regular press conference in Beijing on Friday.
Some Western media and think tanks are peddling so-called "China Shock 2.0," saying that "China is achieving fast development in high-tech sectors such as renewable energy and AI and relies on foreign markets to absorb its overcapacity, thus reducing the market share of developed countries and sending more serious shock waves to the global economy compared with the era of traditional manufacture industry," while there are foreign commentators saying that the "China Shock 2.0" argument ignores the genuine innovation occurring within the Chinese industrial ecosystem and that Chinese export is the exact booster of the global economy that is needed in the turbulent period and more indispensable than ever.
Commenting on that, Lin said: "From the world's factory to the world's market and innovation powerhouse, China's development is achieved through strong performance driven by innovation and brings tangible cooperation opportunities and space to the world. High-quality Chinese products represented by the 'old three' of textiles, furniture and home appliances have stabilized the global industrial and supply chain, lowered the living cost of global consumers and eased the inflationary pressure worldwide. China's green production capacity represented by the 'new three' of electric vehicles, batteries and solar panels has bridged the gap between supply and demand in global green development and bolstered the global energy transition and low-carbon development. Moreover, China's high-tech products represented by the 'new new three' of robots, AI and innovative drugs have broken high-tech barriers and monopoly and enabled people in more countries to access affordable new technologies," said the spokesman.
"Openness and cooperation bring about progress and win-win result. China's development has never been a 'threat' to anyone but the source of growth advancing common development of all countries. What really creates 'shocks' to the world has never been the innovation of Chinese companies and efficiency of Chinese industrial capacity, but protectionist moves of setting up barriers, decoupling and severing industrial and supply chains. China will stay committed to high-standard opening up, defend the multilateral trading system and provide more certainty and new impetus to the world economy with its own steady development," said Lin.
China's development never a threat: FM spokesman
