China and the Solomon Islands on Tuesday signed a framework agreement to upgrade their economic partnership, according to the Chinese Ministry of Commerce.
Under the agreement, the two sides will conduct flexible and pragmatic negotiations under the agreement to reach a mutually beneficial institutional arrangement aimed at expanding trade, investment and practical cooperation.
These efforts seek to strengthen regional industrial and supply chain collaboration and take China-Solomon Islands economic and trade ties to the next level.
A Chinese Ministry of Commerce official said that over the seven years since China and the Solomon Islands established diplomatic relations, bilateral economic and trade relations have maintained sound and steady development, with fruitful results achieved in exchanges and cooperation across various fields.
China stands ready to work with the Solomon Islands to continue expanding mutually beneficial cooperation in the economic and trade sectors, and to achieve new progress in the China-Solomon Islands comprehensive strategic partnership for a new era, the official said.
China, Solomon Islands sign framework agreement to upgrade economic partnership
The secessionist stance of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities is the foremost source of instability of the Taiwan Strait, Zhu Fenglian, spokeswoman for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, said at a press conference in Beijing on Wednesday.
Zhu made the statement in response to the Taiwan authorities' recent remarks that the Chinese mainland is taking military and non-military actions to change the status quo of the Taiwan Strait.
"The DPP politicians' remarks complete distort facts and purely maliciously hype things up. There is only one China in the world, and Taiwan is a part of China, which is the true status quo of the Taiwan Strait. The DPP regime attempts to define the so-called status quo of the Taiwan Strait with a new 'two-state' fallacy, which completely runs counter to legal, historical, and practical realities, and is out and out fallacious separatist delusion. It obstinately clings to its secessionist stance, refuses to acknowledge the 1992 Consensus that embodies the one-China principle, and continually colludes with external forces to engage in separatist provocations, and is the disruptor of the status quo of the Taiwan Strait and foremost source of instability of the region," said Zhu.
DPP secessionists foremost source of Taiwan Strait instability: spokeswoman
