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22:54, 12-Jun-2018
China protests new US representative office in Taiwan
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China’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday it had lodged stern representations with the United States about the unveiling of the new US representative office in Taiwan.
"If any US official attends this activity, whatever their excuse may be, it violates the one-China principle,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told a regular press briefing.
"We urge the US to honor its words on the Taiwan issue and redress its wrongdoings so as to avoid doing harm to China-US ties and peace and stability in cross-strait relations.”
The new representative office of the US in Taiwan, costing about 250 million US dollars, was unveiled on Tuesday.
Marie Royce, assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs, was one of the representatives for the US government at the ceremony.
(Cover photo: Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang at a regular briefing, June 12, 2018. /MOFA photo)
(With inputs from Reuters)