TAO & MAC Cross Swords across the Strait

 TAO & MAC Cross Swords across the Strait

Source: UDN

April 17, 2019

Yesterday, the Mainland’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO，國台辦) under the State Council and the Taipei-based Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) fired salvos across the Taiwan Strait over the cross-service and multi-military-region joint military drills conducted by the PLA in waters and airspace near Taiwan on April 15.

TAO spokesman Ma Xiaoguang (馬曉光) stated yesterday that the PLA’s military drills this time were a normal arrangement within its annual training program with an aim to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity and to maintain the peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait, but the DPP authorities slandered the Mainland over the drills.

Ma pointed out that the DPP authorities lied to and misguided people in Taiwan in order to stir up antagonism and elevate confrontation across the Strait, adding that the DPP authorities’ attempt at continuously undermining cross-Strait ties as well as peace and stability across the Strait would end up in failure.

In response, the MAC stressed that the Mainland increased pressure on Taiwan recently in an attempt to create another Taiwan Strait crisis, lambasting the Mainland for seriously undermining cross-Strait peace, impacting Taiwan’s national security, and threatening the lives and property of people in Taiwan by so doing.

The MAC stated that Taiwan had recognized, in essence, that the Mainland made all efforts to annex Taiwan, so Taiwan would never bow to the Mainland’s military force and would disregard its ridiculous political advocacies.

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