{"id":24882,"date":"2026-09-09T13:41:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=24882"},"modified":"2026-09-09T13:41:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:56:02","slug":"china-reiterates-position-that-taiwan-has-never-been-and-will-never-be-a-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=24882","title":{"rendered":"<strong>China Reiterates Position That Taiwan Has Never Been and Will Never Be a Country<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dragon Media News Desk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Tuesday that Taiwan has never been a country and will never become one, accusing the Lai Ching-te authorities of deliberately distorting UN General Assembly Resolution 2758 to advance what Beijing describes as a \u201cTaiwan independence\u201d separatist agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Mao made the remarks at a regular press briefing in Beijing in response to a question about Lai\u2019s assertion that China was misrepresenting Resolution 2758 and that Taiwan is a \u201csovereign independent nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Mao, statements by the Lai authorities cannot alter what Beijing regards as the historical and legal fact that both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to one China. She also said such rhetoric would not undermine the international community\u2019s adherence to the one-China principle.<\/p>\n<p>Mao said UN General Assembly Resolution 2758 reaffirmed the one-China principle by restoring all rights of the People\u2019s Republic of China at the United Nations and recognizing representatives of its government as the only legitimate representatives of China to the organization.<\/p>\n<p>She said China\u2019s position is that, from political, legal and procedural perspectives, Resolution 2758 settled the question of the representation of China at the United Nations, including Taiwan. Mao stressed that there is only one seat representing China at the UN and rejected any concept of \u201ctwo Chinas\u201d or \u201cone China, one Taiwan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beijing regards the Taiwan question as an issue concerning China\u2019s core interests and maintains that the one-China principle is the political foundation for countries establishing and maintaining diplomatic relations with the People\u2019s Republic of China.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=24882\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"time\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragon Media News Desk Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Tuesday that Taiwan has never been a country and will never become one, accusing the Lai Ching-te authorities of deliberately distorting UN General Assembly Resolution 2758 to advance what Beijing describes as a \u201cTaiwan independence\u201d separatist agenda. Mao made the remarks at a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>China Reiterates Position That Taiwan Has Never Been and Will Never Be a Country - Dragon Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mao stressed that there is only one seat representing China at the UN and rejected any concept of \u201ctwo Chinas\u201d or \u201cone China, one Taiwan.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=24882\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"China Reiterates Position That Taiwan Has Never Been and Will Never Be a Country - 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