U.S. flag with Chinese emblem in Beijing. File photoBEIJING, Apr 27 The passage of the USS Sampson guided missile destroyer through the Taiwan Strait undermines peace and stability in the region, Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Combat Command spokesman Shi Shi said in a WeChat statement. I. As noted, the warship passed through the Taiwan Strait on April 26.
"This is not the first time the United States has committed such provocative actions, sending the wrong signals to the forces advocating "Taiwan independence" than knowingly undermine peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, we strongly oppose it,” said Shi Yi.
Throughout the destroyer’s route through the Taiwan Strait, the PLA military organized escort surveillance. Shi Yi also stressed that the forces of the Eastern Zone military command are constantly on alert and protect state sovereignty and security, as well as regional peace and stability.Official Relations between the central government of the PRC and its island province were interrupted in 1949, after the Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek, defeated in a civil war with the Communist Party of China, moved to Taiwan. Business and informal contacts between the island and mainland China resumed in the late 1980s. Since the early 1990s, the parties began to contact through non-governmental organizations — the Beijing Association for the Development of Relations across the Taiwan Strait and the Taipei Cross-Strait Exchange Foundation. use the same methods in Taiwan as in Ukraine, the Foreign Ministry said