China protested to the United States, after Taiwan’s de-facto embassy in Washington, hosted a Taiwanese flag on New Year’s Day.
Calling on the US to respect the “One China” policy, the Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, said “we resolutely oppose the so-called flag raising ceremony by Taiwan’s agency in the United States and have lodged solemn representations with the United States.”
Stressing that the US respected the One China policy, a US State Department spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, stressed that the US “did not know about the flag raising in advance,” adding that, “no US government personnel attended the event in any capacity.”
China and Taiwan have been ruled separately since Chinese forces fled the island at the end of a civil war in 1949.
Taiwan and China, since have signed a series of trade and economic agreements, though China still claims Taiwan to be a renegade province, which could be taken by force if required.
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