China has criticized a visit by a delegation of German lawmakers to Taiwan, reiterating its opposition to official exchanges between the self-governing island democracy and countries that maintain diplomatic ties with Beijing.<\/p>\n
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said in Beijing on Monday that Taiwan is an inseparable part of China. She said the \u201cOne China principle\u201d formed the \u201cpolitical foundation\u201d of Sino-German relations.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe urge the relevant individuals on the German side to adhere to the One China principle and stop sending wrong signals to Taiwan independence forces,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Beijing has long made clear that it seeks to bring Taiwan, formally known as the Republic of China, under its control.<\/p>\n
Under Beijing\u2019s \u201cOne China\u201d policy, other countries are expected to recognize the People’s Republic of China as the sole representative of China and Taiwan as part of its territory.<\/p>\n
Germany maintains diplomatic relations only with Beijing while also pursuing other types of exchanges with Taiwan.<\/p>\n
The five-member cross-party parliamentary delegation, led by Green lawmaker Till Steffen, arrived in Taiwan over the weekend. The aim of the trip is to expand cooperation with the island.<\/p>\n
The delegation is to meet Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te on Tuesday. Beijing regards Lai as a separatist because his ruling Democratic Progressive Party supports Taiwan\u2019s independence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China has criticized a visit by a delegation of German lawmakers to Taiwan, reiterating its opposition to official…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6292,89,25213,25210,5,25212,24449,25211],"class_list":["post-23566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-chinese-foreign-ministry","tag-german-lawmakers","tag-germany","tag-republic-of-china","tag-taiwan","tag-taiwan-independence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}