Chinese Diplomat Calls for Actions to Stop U.S. Senate Passing TSEA

Chinese Consul-General in Los Angeles An Wenbin Sunday called for actions to dissuade the U. S. Senate from passing the Taiwan Security Enhancement Act (TSEA).

"The TSEA threatens to destroy the very basis of Sino-U.S. relations which six U.S. administrations, both Democrat and Republican, have worked long and hard to build," said An at the symposium "U.S.-China Relations at the Crossroads". He said the TSEA, passed by U.S. House of Representatives last month despite China's strong opposition, will pose a severe threat to China's security and increase the chances of military confrontation across the Taiwan Straits. The symposium, hosted by the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles, was attended by more than 300 scholars and students including former deputy chief of U.S. mission in Beijing, Chas. W. Freeman and former minister- counsellor of Chinese mission in U.S., Ji Chaozhu. An said both relations between China and the United States and relations across the Taiwan Straits are at a critical juncture. " Words and actions by the United States on the Taiwan issue have a direct impact on the development of China-U.S. relations as well as on peace and stability in the Taiwan Straits and the Asia Pacific region."

U.S. government leaders have, on many occasions, reaffirmed continued U.S. commitments on the Taiwan issue. They include the " one China policy," adherence to the three China-U.S. Joint Communiques, and the pledge to render no support to the independence of Taiwan, he noted. In recent years, however, the U.S. side has more than once taken actions to embolden the separatist forces on the Taiwan island and set stumbling-blocks on the road of China's reunification.

An believed the formula of "peaceful reunification" based on " one country, two systems," and the recently published white paper - - The One-China Principle and the Taiwan Issue -- are consistent policy and concrete plans of the Chinese government. "At their very heart is the principle of One China," he pointed out, saying that is the basis and premise of peaceful reunification.

An also urged the United States to work with China to build a peaceful, stable and prosperous world in the 21st century. Being the largest developing country and developed country, according to An, China and the United States share not only a responsibility in maintaining peace and stability in Asia-Pacific and the rest of the world, but also in promoting global economic prosperity, improving global environment and other important issues.

An called the "China threat theory", spread first in Japan and later in the United States, "cold war thinking in today's context, " pointing to the fact that China has never occupied a single inch of foreign soil, nor has it stationed a single soldier abroad. What China desires most, An stressed, is a peaceful international environment, so that it can focus on economic development and improve the life of its 1.2 billion people.

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