The foreign minister deplored that some figures from the United States constantly challenge Beijing’s sovereignty over the Taiwan issue, undermine the one-China policy and even cause trouble without caring about regional stability and only seeking their own benefits.

He upheld the One China principle as the foundation of China’s exchanges with other countries, the center of its core interests and the fundamental red line that cannot be crossed.

As he recalled, it is a universal consensus and he considered it shameful that the United States breaks it, even if it means bankrupting its credibility.

Wang warned that those who “blatantly play with fire on the Taiwan issue become enemies of the 1.4 billion Chinese and will definitely not end up in a good place.”

The foreign minister spoke in this way in rejection of the current presence in Taipei of the president of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, which means for Beijing raising the level of official exchanges with an inseparable part of China.

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