Original title: US and Taiwan may restart trade negotiations this month, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responds
Reference News Network reported on June 12 According to a report from Reuters in Washington on June 10, the office of US Trade Representative Dai Qi said that Dai Qi discussed trade and investment issues with Deng Zhenzhong, Taiwan’s “trade negotiator” on the 10th, and agreed to hold them “in the coming weeks. A meeting of the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement Committee.
The Office of the United States Trade Representative said in a statement: “Dai Qi emphasized the importance of the’US-Taiwan trade and investment relationship’ and explained the worker-centered trade priorities of the Biden-Harris administration.”
The report pointed out that the statement of the Office of the United States Trade Representative did not provide a specific time for the meeting.
In response to the US-Taiwan resumption of so-called trade talks, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin stated in a regular press conference on the 11th that China’s position on the Taiwan issue is consistent and clear. We have always resolutely opposed any form of official exchanges between the United States and Taiwan, and opposed China’s establishment of diplomatic relations with the Taiwan region to negotiate and sign any agreement with sovereign meaning and an official nature.
Wang Wenbin emphasized that China urges the US to strictly abide by the one-China principle and the provisions of the three Sino-US joint communiqués, stop official exchanges between the US and Taiwan, and refrain from sending any wrong signals to the separatist forces of “Taiwan independence”, so as not to seriously damage Sino-US relations and peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.
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