2024-03-19 14:42:21
After obtaining re-election with 87% in a disputed presidential election, the Russian president offered a press conference in which he addressed the conflict between Taiwan and China.
“(These attempts to harm China) have to do, first of all, with making all kinds of provocations around Taiwan, which is an inalienable part of the People’s Republic of China.”Putin said when asked by a Chinese journalist, according to Agencia EFE.
Through a statement, the Taiwanese Foreign Ministry “solemnly refuted” the statements of the Russian leader, indicating that “The Chinese communist regime has never governed Taiwan.”
“Taiwan is a modern democratic country that actively defends its democratic system and respects human rights and the rule of law,” said Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry.
In the official text, the island indicated that “Any distortion of Taiwan’s sovereign status cannot change the internationally recognized cross-Strait status quo.”
In turn, Taipei rejected the legitimacy of the presidential elections in which Putin won first place with an overwhelming majority, rightly accusing the Russian government of being a “dictatorship” even though it “pretends to be a democracy.”
“They were held without opposition or opponentsand took place by force in the occupied territories that were originally part of Ukraine,” the statement details.
“The Foreign Ministry expresses its disdain for the Putin regime, which has once again harmed the development of Russian democracy,” he adds.
Meanwhile, the island Foreign Ministry indicated that “Putin has already lost all credibility in the international community”highlighting that, for the same reason, “his indiscriminate comments about the sovereign status of our country They are even more ridiculous.”
Finally, Taiwan asserted that it will continue to strengthen its ties with democratic countries “to curb authoritarian expansion and protect cross-strait peace and security.”
Let us remember that last October the Chinese Army warned that “it will not show mercy” to “any act favorable to the independence of Taiwan.”
In the framework of the Xiangshan regional forum on cooperation and security, General Zhang Youxia, vice president of the Central Military Commission, the highest authority of the Chinese Army, indicated that “it does not matter who wants to separate Taiwan from China, or in any way. . The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) will never accept it.”
Along the same lines, the military emphasized that Taiwan is part of the “core” of “China’s fundamental interests,” adding that the One China principle “is a consensus shared by the international community.”
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