China has strongly objected to a US Congress
resolution reaffirming its commitment to the "Taiwan Relations
Act," which allows the United States to sell weapons to the
island.
China has lodged a formal complaint to the United States about
the US House of Representatives' resolution, according to Foreign
Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue.
The act was made by US House of Representatives in 1979 and aims
to keep Taiwan with defense capabilities to rival the Chinese
mainland.
Zhang said the unilaterally passed resolution openly violates
Chinese sovereignty, and seriously interferes with China's internal
affairs.
China is a peace loving country. Taiwan separatists' activities
are a great threat to peace and stability across the Taiwan
Straits.
Zhang Qiyue points out the resolution fabricates the so-called
China threat and encourages sales of weapons to Taiwan as well as
increasing the US military presence in Taiwan.
She says this will harm peace and stability in Taiwan, damage
Sino-US relations and, in the end, will harm the United States' own
interests.
The spokeswoman said the three joint Sino-US communiques are the
political basis for relations between China and the United States,
and the guiding principle for the handling of the Taiwan issue.
China has observed that the United States has repeatedly
announced its insistence on the One China policy.
She called on the United States to live up to its commitment to
the one-China policy to maintain peace and stability across the
Taiwan Straits, and relations between China and the United
States.
(CCTV.com, CRI.com July 18, 2004)