At a regular briefing, the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office urged the
European Parliament to immediately correct what it called mistaken statements
and actions on Taiwan after the EP adopted an East Asia geopolitics report that
"opposes any coercive unilateral attempt to change the status quo." Taiwan's
foreign affairs office had thanked the report. Spokesperson Zhu Fenglian
reaffirmed that there is only one China and Taiwan is part of China, called the
EP report crude interference in China’s internal affairs and said Beijing firmly
opposes it. The Taiwan Affairs Office urged the EP to handle Taiwan issues
prudently and warned that the Democratic Progressive Party’s efforts to enlist
foreign backing for moves toward independence are doomed to fail.
