Chinese Friendship Organizations Condemned The Latest U.S. Announcement Of Large-Scale Arms Sales To China’s Taiwan Region

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Joint Statement to Condemn the latest U.S. announcement of large-scale arms sales to China’s Taiwan region

We, Sierra Leone China Friendship Society, Sierra Leone China Friendship Association , Sierra Leone China Foundation and Sino-Sierra Leone Alumni Association, are shocked by and strongly condemn the latest U.S. announcement of large-scale arms sales to China’s Taiwan region and hereby make the following statement.

There is but one China in the world, Taiwan is an inalienable part of China’s territory, and the Government of the People’s Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China. This has been clearly recognized by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 of 1971. The one-China principle is a universal consensus of the international community and a basic norm in international relations.

In the three China-U.S. joint communiqués, the U.S. Government made a clear commitment states that it does not seek to carry out a long-term policy of arms sales to Taiwan, that its arms sales to Taiwan will not exceed, either in qualitative or in quantitative terms, the level of those supplied in recent years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and China, and that it intends gradually to reduce its sale of arms to Taiwan, leading, over a period of time, to a final resolution.

The Taiwan question is purely China’s internal affair. No other country, including the US, has the right to act as a judge on the Taiwan question. There is no doubt that the US side is continuing to arming Taiwan, undermining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, and sending wrong signals to “Taiwan independence” separatist forces. And it is also distorting, obscuring and hollowing out the one-China principle.

As Sierra Leone-China friendship organizations, we hereby reaffirm our strong support to the one-China principle and to the legitimate and necessary responses of China regarding the U.S. announcement. We also urge the US and other forces to stop playing the Taiwan card and not go further down the wrong and dangerous path.

Sierra Leone China Friendship Society

Sierra Leone China Friendship Association

Sierra Leone China Foundation

Sino-Sierra Leone Alumni Association