(ANSA) - BEIJING, AUGUST 29 - Under the pretext of freedom of navigation, "American warships show off their strength: it is not a promise of 'freedom and opening', but a provocation that seeks to unleash freedom and a deliberate sabotage of regional peace and stability ".
Thus the spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry Zhao Lijian, in the aftermath of the passage of the two American cruisers through the Taiwan Strait, contested the American reasons according to which the move was in line with the "One China policy" and was aimed at "maintaining peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific ".
Zhao recalled what the spokesman for the Eastern Theater Command had already said yesterday, according to which the People's Liberation Army "will continue to monitor the entire operation of American warships" and that for now "everything is under control".
China, the spokesman concluded, "once again urges the US to stop falsifying, emptying and distorting the One China principle, to respect the basic rules of international relations on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other countries and not to interfere in their internal affairs. , seriously respecting the principle of One China and the three joint Sino-American communiques ".
In other words, the invitation is "not to be a troublemaker for peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait".
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