Go to mediabankRussian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping. File photoBEJING, Sep 15Chinese President Xi Jinping at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the SCO summit on Thursday praised Russia's position on the Taiwan issue, China Central Television reports. that Taiwan is part of China, which resolutely opposes separatist forces and external interference. Russia condemns the provocations of the United States and its satellites in the Taiwan Strait, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Samarkand on the sidelines of the SCO summit. For our part, we firmly, in practice, adhere to the principle of one China, we condemn the provocations of the United States and its satellites in the Taiwan Strait,” Putin said. The SCO summit is being held on September 15-16. with officials and military from other countries. The situation around Taiwan escalated after the visit of Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi in early August. In response to this trip, Beijing held large-scale military exercises off the coast of the island, imposed sanctions against two Taiwanese foundations, Pelosi herself and her relatives, and took a number of other measures. , as defeated in a civil war with the Communist Party of China, the Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek 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 Foundation for Cross-Strait Exchanges.
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