US obscuring, hollowing out one-China principle, says Chinese Communist Party

Photo taken on July 21, 2019 from Xiangshan Mountain shows the Taipei 101 skyscraper in Taipei, Taiwan. The current situation across the Taiwan Straits remains severe and complex due to the island's ruling Democratic Progressive Party colluding with some forces in the US to seek the independence of the island, officials said on Wednesday at a conference on cross-Straits relations over the past 10 years.

The Democratic Progressive Party has been promoting the idea that the two sides should not be subordinate to each other and the US has been obscuring and hollowing out the one-China principle for its own political gain, said Qiu Kaiming, director of the Research Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee on the One-China principle.

The research bureau of the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee said that the DPP authorities on the island adhere to the secessionist position of Taiwan independence and collude with external forces in making provocations for independence. Some forces in the US have increased their efforts to use Taiwan to contain the development of the mainland, as stated by Qiu Kaiming, director of the Research Bureau of the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee.

The DPP has been promoting the idea that the two sides of the Straits should not be subordinate to each other, and the US has been obscuring and hollowing out the one-China principle for its own political gain, he said.

Such actions attempt to distort the nature of the Taiwan question, and deny the one-China principle, he said, adding that these would end in failure.

Mainland warns of measures against Taiwan's separatism.

At the conference, a spokeswoman for the office said that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan in August, which took place despite strong opposition from the mainland, was a serious escalation of the collusion between Taiwan and the US and sent a badly wrong signal to separatist forces.

She said that we strongly opposed such an act and took a series of resolute measures to counter it.

She said that the mainland will introduce more legal measures to contain the Taiwan independence separatist practices to safeguard the country's sovereignty, security and development interests because of changes in the situation.

Ma Xiaoguang, a spokesman for the office, said peaceful reunification and a country are two systems that are the basis of the mainland's approach to resolving the Taiwan question and the best way to achieve national reunification.

Ma said when designing the specifics for implementing 'one country, two systems' we will give full consideration to the realities in Taiwan and the views and proposals from all walks of life on both sides and fully accommodate the interests and sentiments of our compatriots in Taiwan.

Once peaceful reunification is achieved under one country, two systems will create huge opportunities for social and economic development in Taiwan and bring tangible benefits to the people in Taiwan, he said.

Ma said that Taiwan may have a different social system after reunification than that of the mainland.

The problems that have long afflicted Taiwan's development can be solved through integrated cross-Straits development, with all possible connectivity between the two sides. He said that Taiwan's fiscal revenues could be better used to improve living standards.

He said that the people in Taiwan will enjoy greater security and dignity and will stand upright and rock-solid in the international community.