No one can stop China’s reunification: mainland slams Lai’s separatist remarks

BEIJING, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) — A Chinese mainland spokesperson on Thursday said that no one or force can stop China’s reunification, while slamming Taiwan leader Lai Ching-te’s latest separatist remarks.
Chen Binhua, a spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, made the remarks in response to cross-Strait relation content in Lai’s speech delivered in Taipei on Oct. 10.
Lai’s speech continued to propagate the new “two states” theory and fabricate “Taiwan independence” fallacies, Chen said, adding that it has deliberately heightened tensions across the Strait and gravely undermined peace and stability in the Strait.
Noting that the future of Taiwan lies in national reunification, Chen said that nothing Lai has said can change Taiwan’s legal status as a part of China or the fact and status quo that both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to one China. ■