MOSCOW, 10 Apr. China's claims to Taiwan are «misleading», Beijing «has no legal claims» to the island, Oleksandr Merezhko, head of the international affairs committee of Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada, said. that Taiwan belongs to them. But this is a communist delusion based on denial and a deeply discredited and dead political program,» Merezhko wrote on his Twitter. «China has no legitimate claim to Taiwan.»
Official relations between the PRC's central government and its island province broke off in 1949 after 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.
As Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a conversation with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, anyone who expects China to make concessions on the Taiwan issue, indulges in unfulfilled dreams. «The Taiwan issue is at the center of China's fundamental interests, and the Chinese government and the Chinese people will never agree with those who speculate on the problem of one China,» he stressed. Nancy Pelosi, then Speaker of the US House of Representatives.