’DESPICABLE’:Taiwan Affairs Office spokesperson Ma Xiaoguang said Lee’s comments had caused ‘extreme harm’ to the peaceful development of the cross-strait relationship
Taipei Times
Date: Jul 26, 2015
By: Shih Hsiu-chuan / Staff reporter
Both Beijing and President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) administration have disgraced themselves
Ma Xiaoguang is the spokesman for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office. (Photo: China News Service)
as their denouncements of former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) indicate their “outdated ways of thinking,” former representative to Japan Koh Se-kai (許世楷) said yesterday.
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Taiwan Affairs Office on Friday made hard-hitting comments about Lee’s visit to Japan, on the heels of Presidential Office spokesperson Charles Chen’s (陳以信) statement earlier that day that Lee had “humiliated” the nation and “forfeited its sovereignty” when he said that the disputed Diaoyutai Islands (釣魚台), known as the Senkakus in Japan, belong solely to Japan. The islands are claimed by Taiwan, China and Japan.
Lee reiterated his position on the issue when answering questions at a meeting at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo on Thursday.
In a press release, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Lu Kang (陸慷) called Lee a “stubborn Taiwan splittist” and condemned Tokyo for assisting his visit and becoming involved in Taiwan separatist activities despite the objections of Beijing. [FULL STORY]
