Radio Taiwan International
Date: 22 September, 2020
By: Shirley Lin

Foreign Minister Joseph Wu on Tuesday condemned Beijing for breaking the status quo after it denied the existence of a median line in the Taiwan Strait. Wu was responding to a statement made by China Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin a day earlier. Wang said the median line does not exist because Taiwan is part of China’s territory.

Wu said it is a fact that the Republic of China, Taiwan’s official name, is a sovereign country whose government has jurisdiction over its territory. Wu said for many years, the median line of the Taiwan Strait has served as a symbol for maintaining peace and stability and for avoiding military conflict between the two sides.

Wu said Beijing is destroying the status quo just as it has destroyed the “one country, two systems” principle in Hong Kong by establishing a new national security law.   [FULL  STORY]