{"id":2017327,"date":"2023-08-30T19:57:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T23:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-parliamentary-report-calls-taiwan-an-independent-country\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T20:00:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T00:00:42","slug":"uk-parliamentary-report-calls-taiwan-an-independent-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-parliamentary-report-calls-taiwan-an-independent-country\/","title":{"rendered":"UK parliamentary report recognizes Taiwan as an independent country."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fuk-parliamentary-report-calls-taiwan-an-independent-country%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2017327&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>British Lawmakers Call \u200cfor Stronger Diplomatic Ties with\u2064 Taiwan<\/h2>\n<p>British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak should back diplomatic \u2063visits \u201cinward and outward with Taiwan,\u201d according to British lawmakers who regard \u200cthe island democracy\u200c as \u201can independent country\u201d despite Chinese Communist ambitions to\u2064 rule it.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cTaiwan is already an independent country, under \u2064the name Republic of China (ROC),\u201d the British Parliament\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-parliamentary-report-calls-taiwan-an-independent-country\/\" title=\"UK parliamentary report recognizes Taiwan as an independent country.\">primary foreign affairs \u200ccommittee declared<\/a> in a new report on the United Kingdom\u2019s Indo-Pacific policy. \u201cTaiwan possesses all the qualifications for\u2062 statehood, including a permanent population, a defined territory, government, and the capacity to enter into relations with other states \u2014 it is only lacking greater international recognition.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Retail Theft: A Blow to Companies and Communities<\/h3>\n<p>Taiwan holds \u200dthat ambiguous \u2064status in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-have-lower-opinion-of-joe-biden-than-any-other-nation-global-poll\/\" title=\"Americans Have Lower Opinion of Joe Biden Than Any Other Nation: Global Poll\">world affairs<\/a> because the Chinese Communist regime has vowed to \u2062subjugate the island and will not have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">diplomatic relations<\/a> with any country that treats Taiwan as an independent state. The unveiling of the report \u200cdrew a rebuke from the Chinese Foreign Ministry, in tandem with British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly\u2019s arrival in Beijing for meetings with Chinese officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe relevant report of the British parliament\u200c blatantly\u2062 referred to Taiwan as \u2018an independent country,\u2019 \u2062which distorts the facts and\u2063 is totally misleading,\u201d Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said Wednesday. \u201cWe \u200durge the relevant committee of the British parliament to abide by the one-China principle, observe international law and\u2064 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-rebukes-china-for-human-rights-abuses-in-call-with-chinese-diplomat\/\" title=\"Blinken Rebukes China for Human Rights Abuses in Call with Chinese Diplomat\">norms governing international relations<\/a>,\u200c respect China\u2019s core interests, stop sending wrong\u200c signals to \u2018Taiwan independence\u2019 separatist \u2063forces, take concrete actions to fulfill\u200c the U.K.\u2019s political commitments on the Taiwan question and maintain the sound and\u2062 steady growth of the\u2064 China-UK relations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan is the last bastion of the nationalist Republic of China government overthrown \u200cduring the Chinese Communist\u200d Revolution. The ousted Chinese rulers were allies of the United States during the Second World War. U.S. \u200dofficials cut formal ties with Taipei in order\u200b to open an embassy in Beijing\u2064 during the height of the Cold War, \u2063but Congress intervened to require the \u2062federal government to maintain friendly unofficial ties to Taiwan and to \u200daid Taiwanese forces in\u2064 deterring a potential invasion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is imperative the foreign secretary steadfastly \u2063and vocally stand \u200bby Taiwan and make clear we will uphold Taiwan\u2019s right to self-determination,\u201d senior British lawmaker Alicia Kearns, who chairs the committee that produced the report, told Politico\u2019s Europe \u2062affiliate. \u201cThis commitment aligns\u200d not only with British values but also serves as a poignant \u200bmessage to autocratic regimes worldwide that sovereignty cannot be attained through violence or coercion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report emphasized that British governments long have refused to endorse\u2062 Beijing\u2019s \u201cone-China principle\u201d in\u200b favor of \u201cacknowledging\u201d Beijing\u2019s assertion \u201cwithout declaring adherence to it.\u201d Yet Cleverly, for\u2064 his part, downplayed the significance of the \u2064parliamentary overview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat report is produced\u2064 by a cross-party committee that scrutinizes the U.K. government; that is not a U.K. government document,\u201d the foreign secretary\u2064 told Bloomberg during an \u200cinterview in Beijing. \u201cThe U.K. \u200bgovernment&#8217;s position has remained consistent \u2014 that there should be no unilateral change\u2063 to the\u2063 status quo, that \u2063any changes should be done through discussion on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kearns and her colleagues noted that \u201cthere is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senators-still-skeptical-of-infrastructure-reconciliation-bills\/\" title=\"GOP senators still skeptical of infrastructure, reconciliation bills\">general agreement<\/a> among witnesses\u2062 that a Chinese \u2064invasion \u2064of Taiwan is not inevitable, but is a last resort.\u201d And they acknowledged, also, the\u200b risk that an\u2064 errant foreign political gesture to Taiwan could persuade Chinese \u2064General Secretary Xi Jinping that war is necessary.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe Committee is very alert to the importance of preventing Xi Jinping from deciding that conflict over\u200c Taiwan\u2062 is inevitable,\u201d the report said. \u201cEqually, caution is needed to ensure efforts to defend Taiwan\u2019s right to self-determination do not force an outcome \u2063in which the \u200dCCP cannot decide not to invade Taiwan, for fear of this being misrepresented \u2063as a loss for the CCP, rather \u200cthan a decision to respect the rules-based\u2063 order.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The parliamentary report, which called for ministerial visits\u2063 to Taiwan on matters of \u200deducation, science, and trade, echoed Cleverly\u2019s opposition to \u201cunilateral attempts to change the status quo\u201d but also ascribed \u2064to British leaders a habit of\u2064 curtailing their engagement with Taiwan out of excessive deference to the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s preferences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u200dUK could pursue closer relations with Taiwan if it were not over-cautious about offending the CCP,\u201d the report \u2063suggested. \u201cThe practice of\u200c appointing UK representatives to Taiwan who \u2062have extensive experience \u2063of working in China may be counterproductive because they may be over-sensitized to potential opposition to their actions from the Chinese government.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British lawmakers are urging Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to support diplomatic visits to and from Taiwan, considering it an independent country despite China&#8217;s ambitions. 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