"Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory. How to resolve the Taiwan question is a matter for the Chinese ourselves," ministry spokesperson Mao Ning told reporters at a Friday news conference. "This is China's internal affair that brooks no external interference."
Taiwan's government, officially the Republic of China, fled the Chinese mainland after its defeat by communist forces in 1949 and functions as a sovereign state with its own elected government, military and diplomatic relations.
