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Root cause for complexity across Taiwan Straits lies in DPP's refusal to acknowledge 1992 Consensus and colluding with external forces: mainland spokesperson

Global Times

By Global Times Published: May 14, 2025 12:00 PM

Commenting on an article by US scholars urging the Trump administration to "rein in Taiwan" and make clear to the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities that Washington opposes any moves toward independence, a mainland spokesperson said on Wednesday that root cause for the current complex and severe situation across the Taiwan Straits is DPP's refusal to acknowledge the 1992 Consensus that embodies the one-China principle, while colluding with external forces to pursue separatist provocations.

Foreign Policy published an article on May 1 titled "Trump Should Rein in Taiwan." In the article, two senior fellows from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a non-partisan international affairs think tank headquartered in Washington DC, suggested the Trump administration should rein in Lai Ching-te "before he mistakes Washington's passivity for approval and entangles the US in a potentially calamitous war."

The authors urged the US government to "make clear to him [Lai] that Washington opposes any moves by Taiwan to inch closer and closer to independence," according to the article. "Taipei should not overestimate what the United States, under any president, would do in its defense... Taiwan must make decisions with clear eyes and not assume the United States will fight World War III on its behalf."

Asked to comment on the article during Wednesday's press briefing, Chen Binhua, a spokesperson of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, noted that recently, an increasing number of foreign media outlets and experts have voiced concern and condemnation over the extreme dangers and harmful consequences of Lai's "Taiwan independence" provocations.

"The current situation across the Taiwan Straits is complex and severe, and the root cause lies in the refusal of the DPP authorities led by Lai to acknowledge the 1992 Consensus, which embodies the one-China principle, while colluding with external forces to pursue separatist provocations," Chen said.

Chen stressed that the Taiwan question is purely China's internal affair, and its resolution is a matter for the Chinese people on both sides of the Straits. He also urged the US to abide by the one-China principle and the three China-US joint communiqués, and oppose "Taiwan independence."