by Xinhua Writer Chen Shilei
BEIJING, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Allowing Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen's stopovers in the United States and even meetings with U.S. officials goes against the globally recognized one-China policy, a cornerstone for the long-term healthy development of the China-U.S. ties.
Tsai on Sunday met with U.S. Senator Ted Cruz and Texas Governor Greg Abbott during a stopover in Houston on her way to Central America.
Although both Taiwan and the United States described Tsai's stay as nothing unusual, Tsai's meetings with Cruz and Abbott revealed the pro-independence Taiwan leader's ambition to seek U.S. support and some U.S. politicians' ambiguous attitude toward the one-China policy that the United States recognizes: there is only one China in the world and Taiwan is a part of China.
The one-China principle, which has been formed during the Chinese people's fight to safeguard China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, has its unshakable factual and legal basis.
The United States severed ties with Taiwan and established diplomatic ties with the People's Republic of China in the 1970s, admitting Beijing is the only legitimate government representing China -- a principle China conducts diplomacy with other countries.
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