SLCFA blasts Pelosi’s ‘reckless move’

Sri Lanka -China Friendship Association (SLCFA) yesterday condemned the visit by the US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan as a provocation against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the People’s Republic of China and an extremely reckless and dangerous move against world peace.

SLCFA President, attorney-at-law Ananda Goonatilleke said that “this treacherous provocation by the United States undermines not only the universally accepted 1971 United Nations resolution on China but also maliciously breaks its own commitment upholding the inalienable legality of the Government of China.”

The SLCFA strongly supports and stands by China’s reaction to this serious intrusion on her sovereignty that obviously prompted a series of countermeasures from Beijing, ranging from military to diplomacy and to economic sanctions.

“The whole world knows that the so-called Taiwan issue is an outcome of the unfinished War of Liberation of China in 1949. Victorious Red Army of China could have continued the onslaught to liberate the Island of Taiwan when the ousted Chiang Kai-shek clique took refuge in China’s Taiwan region. Completion of the war of liberation was prevented by the interference of the then Administration of U.S. President Harry S. Truman to save the unlawful Chiang Kai-shek regime,” Goonatilleke said.

From its inception, the PRC has been adamant on safeguarding national reunification and opposing US provocation, the SLCFA said. US, its allies, and secessionists in Taiwan must realize that the reunification of the Chinese motherland is inevitable, Goonatilleke added.

“SLCFA believes that Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan marks a new phase in the Cross-Straits situation. The US has taken an extremely dangerous step forward, and China will take two steps forward. The SLCFA strongly recognizes China’s inalienable sacred right to unify her Taiwan regain with the mainland and supports any and every step the Communist Party of China and the PRC takes to fulfill the final liberation of her territory,” he said.