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China on Taiwan: 'External interference' won't be tolerated - ABC News
Sep 24, 2022 1 min, 16 secs
China has underscored its commitment to its claim on Taiwan.

UNITED NATIONS -- China underscored its commitment Saturday to its claim on Taiwan, telling assembled world leaders that anyone who gets in the way of its determination to reunify with the self-governing island would be “crushed by the wheels of history.”.

“Only when China is fully reunified can there be true peace across the Taiwan Strait,” Wang Yi, China's foreign minister, said at the U.N.

“The PRC government is the sole government representing all of China,” Wang said, referring to China's formal name, the People's Republic of China.

They have sparred for decades over human rights, most recently the mistreatment of ethnic Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region of western China.

For example, Wang said, “We stand firmly against attempts to politicize human rights,” and “We must uphold equity and oppose bullying” — both references to longtime irritations it has with U.S.

officials said Blinken ramped up the Biden administration's efforts to press China to end provocative actions against Taiwan.

China's Foreign Ministry, in a summary of the meeting, said Wang told his counterpart that "the current China-U.S.

side’s recent erroneous acts on the Taiwan question.” However, it also said: “Both sides believe that the meeting was candid, constructive and important, and agreed to maintain communication.”

After the takeover of China by Mao Zedong's Communist forces in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists decamped to Taiwan and kept their separate government going

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