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'Mainland's policy remains consistent and clear': Taiwan Affairs Office responds to cross-Straits tensions and 'seizing Taiwan 2027' hype

Global Times

By Global Times Published: Aug 27, 2025 01:30 PM

"We are willing to create ample space for peaceful reunification and will strive with utmost sincerity and effort to achieve this prospect. However, we will never renounce the use of force and reserve the option to take all necessary measures," said State Council Taiwan Affairs Office spokesperson Zhu Fenglian on Wednesday, in response to media inquiries over the cross-Straits tensions, which has raised about whether miscalculations or accidental escalations could lead to conflict.

Citing hyping remarks in March by a senior US military officer that the Chinese mainland will be prepared to "seize Taiwan" by 2027, the rising trend of military spending and lack of cross-Straits communication of the Taiwan Straits, a Taiwan media reporter expressed concerns over whether miscalculations or accidental escalations could lead to conflict and asked the mainland spokesperson to comment.

In response, Zhu said the mainland's Taiwan policy remains consistent and clear.

"Peaceful reunification and One Country, Two Systems" is our fundamental policy for resolving the Taiwan question and the best approach to achieving national reunification, which is most beneficial to compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Straits and to the Chinese nation, Zhu said.

"We are willing to create ample space for peaceful reunification and will strive with utmost sincerity and effort to achieve it. However, we will never renounce the use of force and reserve the option to take all necessary measures," Zhu added.

On defense spending, Zhu said the mainland's expenditure is growing at a reasonable and steady pace to safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests, ensuring that the modernization of national defense and armed forces aligns with the country's overall modernization process.

According to the spokesperson, driven by its own interests, the US treats Taiwan as a "pawn" to contain the Chinese mainland, constantly creating pretexts for "arming Taiwan." While the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities eagerly align with external forces, repeatedly hyping up the mainland's "military threat" while ignoring the aspirations of the Taiwan people for improved livelihoods, welfare, and their calls to "avoid war and seek peace."

This will severely harm the interests and well-being of the Taiwan people and gravely undermine peace and stability across the Taiwan Straits, Zhu added.

It must be pointed out that the current instability in the Taiwan Straits and the suspension of cross-straits dialogue and communication mechanisms are fundamentally due to the DPP authorities' refusal to acknowledge the "1992 Consensus," which embodies the one-China principle, and their persistent collusion with external forces to "pursue secession by force" and "secession by relying on external forces," Zhu said.

These secessionist actions undermine peace and stability in the Taiwan Straits, harm the interests and well-being of Taiwan compatriots, and challenge the will and determination of all Chinese people, and they are doomed to fail, Zhu said.

Zhu emphasized that the historical process of cross-Straits reunification is unstoppable, saying that the mainland is committed to promoting the peaceful development of cross-Straits relations based on adherence to the "1992 Consensus" and opposing Taiwan secession.

"We also hope that people from all sectors in Taiwan will join us in upholding the one-China principle, consolidating and enhancing mutual trust, strengthening exchanges and cooperation, jointly safeguarding peace and stability in the Taiwan Straits, and firmly keeping Taiwan's future and destiny of Taiwan in the hands of the Chinese people on both sides of the Straits," Zhu said.