Reading this statement is like being transported back in time.
The foreign ministers of these countries clearly believe that they still live in the days of the Eight-Power Allied Forces over 120 years ago.
We no longer live in a world where the imperialist powers could run roughshod over Chinese people on Chinese soil.
Today's China is not the old China humiliated and bullied over 100 years ago.
It is time for these people to wake up from their imperial dream.
Let me stress the following points.
First, China has the right to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The tensions in the Taiwan Strait is fundamentally caused by the US connivance at the third highest-ranking official of the US government to take a military aircraft to visit China's Taiwan region in disregard of China's strong opposition and serious representations.
This is a major incident that seeks to upgrade the substantive exchanges between the United States and Taiwan.
It causes serious harm to the one-China principle and to China's sovereignty and territorial integrity.