Beijing News According to ***official*** local time on February 17, 2024, Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China and chief of the Communist Party of China, attended the Munich Security Conference, delivered a keynote speech at the "China Session" and answered on-site questions on the Taiwan issue.
Wang Yi said that Taiwan has always been a part of China. In 1943, China, the United States and Britain jointly issued the Cairo Declaration, which clearly stipulated that Taiwan stolen by Japan should be returned to China. Article 8 of the 1945 Potsdam Proclamation, which aimed to end World War II, stated that "the provisions of the Cairo Declaration shall be implemented". United Nations documents more clearly position Taiwan as a province of China. All this fully shows that the Taiwan issue is 100 percent China's internal affair. Taiwan has never been, and will never be, a country. This is a basic historical fact and the consensus of the international community.
Wang Yi said: As an issue left over from China's civil war, Taiwan will eventually return to the embrace of the motherland, and the two sides of the strait will surely achieve reunification. This is the firm will of the 1.4 billion Chinese people, and it is also an inevitable trend of history. Stability in the Taiwan Strait is in the interests of all parties, and it is precisely the "** forces" on the island that undermine peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. "* It is incompatible with peace in the Taiwan Strait. To uphold the one-China principle, we should support China's peaceful reunification. To maintain peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, we must resolutely oppose it."
Edited by Chen Yanting.