China insists Taiwan not sovereign nation, defends territorial integrity

China has reaffirmed its committedness to the One-China principle, stating that Taiwan is not a sovereign federation but an inseparable portion of Chinese territory.

Counselor astatine the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China successful Nigeria, Dong Hairong, made this known on Thursday at a Media Salon held successful Abuja by the Centre for China Studies and the Centre for Contemporary China-Africa Research.

Hairong reiterated that caller developments involving Taiwan showed the request for greater planetary knowing of the Taiwan question and China’s territorial position.

She cited the caller sojourn of Taiwan determination leader, Lai Ching-te, to Eswatini, arsenic good arsenic a reported engagement betwixt immoderate Nigerian journalists and Taiwanese officials, arsenic examples of what she described arsenic attempts to beforehand separatist narratives.

“Taiwan has been an inalienable portion of Chinese territory since past times,”

“Taiwan has ne'er been a country, was ne'er 1 and volition ne'er be,” Dong said..

On his part, Convener of The Alternative Movement, Otunba Segun Showunmi, stated that Nigeria should deepen strategical practice with China, noting that Beijing had emerged arsenic a large planetary economical and technological power.

Showunmi said Nigeria stood to summation much from stronger ties with China than from abstracted engagements with Taiwan.

“In different 100 years, ...