Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that the West is deliberately inflaming the situation around Taiwan.
‘The US and its satellites are deliberately escalating the situation in the Taiwan Strait. They are strengthening political and military ties with the island’s administration in violation of their own recognised commitments to respect the principle of one China,’ he said in an article for Rossiyskaya Gazeta to mark the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and China.
The diplomat added that Russia’s position on Taiwan remains unchanged and has been repeatedly voiced at various levels.
Earlier, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that Taiwan would definitely ‘return to the embrace of the motherland’.