China pledges support for ‘reunification’ forces in TaiwanBy Chen Yu-fu and Hollie Younger / Staff reporter, with staff writer and ReutersChina would offer firm support for "patriotic pro-reunification forces" in Taiwan and strike hard against "separatists," the top Chinese official in charge of Taiwan policy said today. This year's annual "Taiwan Work Conference" was held in Beijing yesterday and today. Addressing the meeting, Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Chairman Wang Huning (王滬寧), the CCP’s fourth-ranked leader, said officials must advance the "great cause of national reunification," Xinhua news agency reported. Photo: ReutersWang stressed the need to uphold the “one China” principle and the “1992 consensus” to firmly combat "Taiwan independence separatist forces and oppose interference by external forces,” Xinhua said. Beijing’s creation of task forces at the "Taiwan Work Conference" was “a form of aggression against Taiwan,” Taiwan Economic Democracy Union convener Lai Chung-chiang (賴中強) said.

Source: Taipei Times February 10, 2026 14:30 UTC