What is called the Taiwan question, connotatively
speaking, includes
the following three aspects:
(1) The Taiwan question is a question left over
by the civil war in
China, and it is purely China's
internal affair. On October 1, 1949,
the People's
Republic of China was founded and a group of military
and political officials of the Kuomintang
retreated to Taiwan after
being defeated. With the
support of the then U.S. administration,
they set up a
separate regime in Taiwan by the force of arms. So,
the
Taiwan question is first of all the question of the
relationships between the Government of the People's
Republic of
China -- the sole legal government
representing the entire Chinese
people with the
capital in Beijing - and the Taiwan authorities, and
it
should be resolved by the Chinese on both sides of the
Taiwan
Straits.
(2) The Taiwan question is
a question of safeguarding state
sovereignty and
territorial integrity, defending national honour and
opposing external interference by the Chinese Government and
people.
The U.S. government should strictly observe the
principles enshrined
in the three Sino-U.S.
joint communique and thoroughly correct and
stop
various erroneous practices of making use the Taiwan
question
to interfere in China's internal affairs and
obstruct the
reunification of China.
(3) The Taiwan question is in essence a struggle
between the forces
for and against division, and between
the forces for and against
"Taiwan
independence", and the focus is the struggle between
one
China and "two Chinas". The Chinese
Government and people adhere to
the principle of
one China, resolutely oppose all schemes aimed at
splitting the country and the nation, and resolutely oppose
any
attempts of creating "two Chinas",
"one China and one Taiwan" or
"Taiwan independence".