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Elon Musk. File photoBEJING, Oct 8The Taiwan issue is China's internal affair, Beijing will pursue the policy of peaceful reunification of the country based on the «one country, two systems» formula, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said at a briefing on Saturday, commenting on the proposal of American businessman Elon Musk to make Taiwan a special administrative region. «First, the Taiwan issue is China's internal affair. China's position on the Taiwan issue is consistent and clear. We will adhere to the main course of the country's peaceful reunification, the principle of «one country, two systems,» the diplomat said. Mao Ning stressed that China will resolutely suppress separatist attempts to break off Taiwan, resolutely oppose the intervention of external forces, and protect state sovereignty and territorial integrity. American entrepreneur Elon Musk earlier said in an interview with the British Financial Times that the conflict over Taiwan is inevitable, and suggested that his disgust to make the island a special administrative region of the PRC. «My recommendation… would be to come up with a special administrative zone for Taiwan,» he was quoted as saying. «I think maybe they could reach an agreement that's more liberal than for Hong Kong,» Musk added. He acknowledged that the idea might not appeal to everyone. «Musk believes that the conflict over Taiwan is inevitable,» the publication says. Taiwan escalated after the visit to the island of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. China, which considers the island one of its provinces, condemned Pelosi's visit, seeing in this step US support for Taiwanese separatism, and held large-scale military exercises. In the 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 through Taiwan.