Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning Photo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs

When asked to comment on reports that Taiwan's "Legislative Yuan" appointed Iwasaki Shigeru, former chief of the Joint Staff of Japan's Self-Defense Forces, as a consultant, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Friday that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China and the Taiwan question is purely China's internal affair that brooks no external interference. 
 
She stressed that the one-China principle is the political foundation of China-Japan relations. This year marks the 80th of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. Japan bears historical responsibilities to the Chinese people over the Taiwan question and should act with extra prudence and honor its promise of adhering to the one-China principle with concrete actions.

"We've lodged protests with the Japanese side. The DPP authorities' separatist provocations with foreign support are doomed to fail," the spokesperson said.

Global Times