Muddying of one-China principle called out

Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Tuesday that China does not acknowledge the so-called San Francisco Peace Treaty, warning that any attempt to challenge the one-China principle will be in vain.

At a daily news briefing, Zhao refuted the remarks by Michael Rubin, a senior fellow at the Washington-based American Enterprise Institute, who cited the treaty as saying Taiwan was never a part of China. "The article by the AEI under the cloak of academics is a real lie," Zhao said.

Noting the content of the article obviously violates historical and legal common sense, Zhao said the motive behind it is to hollow out the one-China principle.