Today, Chen Binhua, spokesperson of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, answered questions from reporters.

Q: In an exclusive interview with the American radio program, Taiwan leader Lai Ching-te once again promoted the "new two-state theory" of "unaffiliated cross-straits", falsely claimed that mainland military exercises undermined the peace and stability of the "Indo-Pacific" region, and clamored to increase Taiwan's defense budget and jointly exert "deterrence" against the mainland with the "democratic camp". What are your comments on this?

Answer: Lai Ching-te is also turning black and white, making a fuss about the "mainland threat", and selling the separatist fallacy of "Taiwan independence", and clamoring for "using force to seek independence" and "relying on external independence", and deceiving Taiwanese people and international public opinion, fully exposing his "Taiwan independence" nature of "spreading cross-strait peace destroyers" and "maker of crisis in the Taiwan Strait".

For more than a year after Lai Ching-te came to power, he has violated the mainstream public opinion on the island, stubbornly adhered to the "Taiwan independence" stance, promoted the fallacy of separatism, constantly incited "anti-China and resisted China", continued to escalate cross-strait confrontation, aggravated tensions in the Taiwan Strait, and promoted military force to "prepare for war and seek independence", pushing Taiwan to a dangerous situation of fierce war. At the same time, they are unprincipled to fawn on foreign countries and sell Taiwan without bottom line, squander the people's wealth and spoil the people's money and spoil the external forces, and allow external forces to seek it, seriously damaging the vital interests of Taiwanese enterprises and the people, and not hesitate to ruin Taiwan's economic lifeline and development prospects.

Taiwan is part of China's territory, and the mainland and Taiwan belong to the same China. This is an unquestionable historical and legal fact, and it is also an unchangeable cross-strait status. We cherish peace, but we will never tolerate the separatist relationship of "Taiwan independence" and will never sit idly by and watch the "Taiwan independence" forces sell and destroy Taiwan. We have firm will, strong determination and strong ability to crush all "Taiwan independence" separatist activities and external interference, safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and safeguard the security and well-being of the Taiwanese people.

Characted Lai Ching-te and the DPP authorities that the general trend of unification is unstoppable, "relying on external affairs to seek independence" is doomed to fail, and "using martial arts to seek independence" is accelerated. Any acts that rely on external forces will be humiliated by themselves, any sinner who betrays the nation will be judged justly, and any attempt to split the motherland will be firmly countered. Unification will win, and "Taiwan independence" will perish. Lai Ching-te and the "Taiwan independence" forces are just shaking trees and will eventually be swept into the garbage dump of history.

(CCTV reporter Zhao Jing)