BEIJING, May 12 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday that Taiwan had never been and never would be a country.
"Taiwan is never a country, not in the past, and never in the future," spokesperson Lin Jian said at a daily press briefing in response to Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities' "Taiwan independence" fallacy.
The remarks made by the DPP authorities once again fully exposed their habitual tactics of distorting history, manipulating facts, and spreading falsehoods in their pursuit of "Taiwan independence," Lin said.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the World Anti-Fascist War, and the restoration of Taiwan, Lin noted, adding that Taiwan's restoration to China in 1945 is a victorious outcome of WWII and an integral part of the postwar international order.
A series of instruments with legal effect under international law, including the Cairo Declaration, the Potsdam Proclamation, and the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, have all confirmed China's sovereignty over Taiwan, and the historical and legal facts are beyond doubt, he added.
There is but one China in the world, Taiwan is an inalienable part of China, and the government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China, Lin stressed.
Although national reunification has yet to be fully realized, the fact that both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to one and the same China and that Taiwan is an inseparable part of China have never changed and cannot be changed -- this is the real status quo in the Taiwan Strait, Lin said.
Lin stressed that no matter what the DPP authorities say or do, they cannot change the historical and legal fact that Taiwan is part of Chinese territory, nor can they alter the one-China principle, which is a widely recognized consensus in the international community.
"China will be reunified, and this is unstoppable," said Lin.
