Published: 09:10, January 14, 2024 | Updated: 12:56, January 14, 2024
Foreign Ministry: One-China principle unshakable
By Zhou Jin

Photo taken on July 21, 2019 from Xiangshan Mountain shows the Taipei 101 skyscraper in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

Whatever changes take place in Taiwan, the fact that the region is part of China will not change, and the Chinese government's opposition to "Taiwan independence" separatism will not change, the Foreign Ministry said in an online statement on Saturday night.

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The Taiwan question is China's internal affair and changes to the situation on the island will not affect the fact that there is only one China in the world, the statement said in response to the result of an election in the region.

The one-China principle is the solid anchor for peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, the spokesperson stressed, adding that the international community's consensus on upholding and adhering to the principle will not change

The Chinese government's position of upholding the one-China principle and opposing "two Chinas" and "one China, one Taiwan" will not change, a spokesperson said in the statement.

The one-China principle is the solid anchor for peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, the spokesperson stressed, adding that the international community's consensus on upholding and adhering to the principle will not change.

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Beijing believes that the international community will continue to adhere to the one-China principle, understand and support the Chinese people's just cause of opposing "Taiwan independence" separatist activities, and their striving to achieve national reunification, the spokesperson added.

Results of Taiwan region leadership

Taiwan's leadership and legislature elections were held on Saturday.

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Candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party Lai Ching-te and his running mate Hsiao Bi-khim won the leadership election.

In the election of the island's 113-seat legislature, the Chinese Kuomintang party garnered 52 seats, the DPP won 51 seats, and the Taiwan People's Party seized eight seats. The rest two went to independent candidates.

With Xinhua inputs