China’s perspective: The limit of • Table.Briefings

Taiwan Hall of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing: China opposes any attempt to create „one China and one Taiwan“.

Why is China reacting so harshly to Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan? Among other things, Beijing sees it as a paradigm shift on the part of the US: The historic one-China principle is being deliberately softened. The two sides are thus accusing each other of softening the status quo on the Taiwan Strait.

China’s diplomats sometimes speak quite a different language. The ambassador to France, Lu Shaye, who appears radical even among brisk wolf warriors, announced twice in recent days that the Taiwanese, misguided by the US and their government, would first have to be re-educated after a conquest: „I’m sure that as long as they are re-educated, the Taiwanese public will once again become patriots.“

China’s perspective: The limit of the tolerable has been crossed

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