While Taiwan attempts to maintain the cross-strait status quo, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) acts as a “troublemaker” seeking to alter that status quo, Mainland Affairs Council Deputy Minister Shen Yu-chung (沈有忠) said today at a conference in Taichung.
Peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait is in the shared interest of the global community, he said, despite recent threatening messages from the CCP and Beijing’s distortion of international narratives.
Photo courtesy of the Mainland Affairs Council
Shen today attended the 2025 International Seminar on Mercantilism Returns to International Politics: Tariffs, War, AI, and Great Power Competition, which opened this morning at Tunghai University in Taichung.
Global attention on cross-strait affairs has been mounting in recent years, with many democratic countries speaking out on behalf of Taiwan and the importance of maintaining regional peace and stability, he said.
China uses various tactics to promote the “one China principle,” including the “three 80th anniversaries” — as this year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese people’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (as China refers to the Second Sino-Japanese War), the UN’s 80th anniversary and the 80th anniversary of the retrocession of Taiwan — he said.
It also willfully misinterprets UN Resolution 2758, passed in 1971, which states that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is the only legitimate government of China, which enabled it to replace the Republic of China (ROC), Taiwan’s official name, as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, he added.
However, Resolution 2758 has no bearing on Taiwan’s sovereign status or international position, he added.
He thanked democratic nations for using diplomatic relations or parliamentary meetings to refute the CCP's distortion of the resolution to silence Taiwan and block its meaningful participation in international organizations.
Calls from the international community, however, remain unacknowledged by China as it continues to use threatening rhetoric towards countries that are friendly to Taipei, he said.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi sparked a diplomatic row with Beijing with remarks in parliament last week that a Chinese attack on Taiwan could amount to a "survival-threatening situation" and trigger a military response from Tokyo.
China's top diplomat in Osaka shared a news article about Takaichi's remarks about Taiwan on X and commented "the dirty neck that sticks itself in must be cut off", prompting a protest from Japan's government.
China's Taiwan Affairs Office spokesman Chen Binhua (陳斌華) said that Japan should “deeply reflect on history, draw lessons from history, strictly adhere to the one-China principle... and exercise extreme caution when handling Taiwan-related matters,” China’s state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday.
Moreover, Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim's (蕭美琴) spoke at the European Parliament in Brussels on Friday while the annual Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) summit was being held.
Chen then smeared IPAC as “merely a clique of anti-China elements,” Chinese state media China Daily reported.
The CCP has no intention of engaging in dialogue with Taiwan’s democratically elected government, Shen added.
Beijing further promotes its claim to the international community that issues surrounding Taiwan are an “internal matter,” he said.
Shen called on all parts of society to assess cross-strait dynamics objectively and uphold national sovereignty, security and democratic values.
Additional reporting by Reuters
A small number of Taiwanese this year lost their citizenship rights after traveling in China and obtaining a one-time Chinese passport to cross the border into Russia, a source said today. The people signed up through Chinese travel agencies for tours of neighboring Russia with companies claiming they could obtain Russian visas and fast-track border clearance, the source said on condition of anonymity. The travelers were actually issued one-time-use Chinese passports, they said. Taiwanese are prohibited from holding a Chinese passport or household registration. If found to have a Chinese ID, they may lose their resident status under Article 9-1
Taiwanese were praised for their composure after a video filmed by Taiwanese tourists capturing the moment a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck Japan’s Aomori Prefecture went viral on social media. The video shows a hotel room shaking violently amid Monday’s quake, with objects falling to the ground. Two Taiwanese began filming with their mobile phones, while two others held the sides of a TV to prevent it from falling. When the shaking stopped, the pair calmly took down the TV and laid it flat on a tatami mat, the video shows. The video also captured the group talking about the safety of their companions bathing
PROBLEMATIC APP: Citing more than 1,000 fraud cases, the government is taking the app down for a year, but opposition voices are calling it censorship Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) yesterday decried a government plan to suspend access to Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu (小紅書) for one year as censorship, while the Presidential Office backed the plan. The Ministry of the Interior on Thursday cited security risks and accusations that the Instagram-like app, known as Rednote in English, had figured in more than 1,700 fraud cases since last year. The company, which has about 3 million users in Taiwan, has not yet responded to requests for comment. “Many people online are already asking ‘How to climb over the firewall to access Xiaohongshu,’” Cheng posted on
A classified Pentagon-produced, multiyear assessment — the Overmatch brief — highlighted unreported Chinese capabilities to destroy US military assets and identified US supply chain choke points, painting a disturbing picture of waning US military might, a New York Times editorial published on Monday said. US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s comments in November last year that “we lose every time” in Pentagon-conducted war games pitting the US against China further highlighted the uncertainty about the US’ capability to intervene in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. “It shows the Pentagon’s overreliance on expensive, vulnerable weapons as adversaries field cheap, technologically
RSS