Taiwan will not join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as a founding member, a Chinese official signaled on Monday, as a disagreement over what the island would be called has not been resolved.
Taiwan submitted a letter of intent on March 31 to join the institution as a founding member. Although Beijing welcomed Taiwan’s participation, it said it must do so under an “appropriate name,” indicating that disagreements over the contentious issue of Taiwan’s sovereignty were likely.
“Recently, we’ve taken note of the Taiwan side’s views towards participation, name and other questions,” Ma Xiaoguang, a spokesman for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, said in a written statement on Monday. “We are willing to continue listening to all parties’ opinions and properly resolve the questions regarding Taiwan’s participation in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.”
The statement confirmed a report in the Chinese state news media that Taiwan would not join the bank as a founding member, but said that it could still join as an ordinary member.
Taiwan and China split after the end of China’s civil war in 1949, when Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist forces fled to the island. China considers the self-ruled island as part of its territory, and it has not ruled out the use of force to prevent Taiwan’s formal independence. China has used its clout to limit Taiwan’s participation in international organizations, often forcing it to use names that imply Chinese sovereignty, such as “Chinese Taipei,” under which Taiwan participates in the Olympic Games and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.
Taiwan officials had said “Chinese Taipei” was acceptable for its membership in the bank. Beijing has not said what name it wanted Taiwan to use in the organization.
The Mainland Affairs Council, which is in charge of Taiwan’s policy toward China, said on Monday that it “regrets” that Taiwan cannot join the bank in the first round, but it said that Taiwan was still eager to join as long as its rights were guaranteed.
The United States has criticized the bank and pressured its allies not to participate in the project, but the flood of countries that have signed on seems to have surprised even the Chinese organizers. Forty-six countries, including American allies like Australia, Britain and South Korea, have agreed to become founding members of the bank.
A spokesman for President Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan said last month that membership in the bank would increase Taiwan’s global recognition, improve its integration in the regional economy and help it join other international organizations. But Prime Minister Mao Chi-kuo said Taiwan “would rather not participate” if it could not join with “dignity” and “equality.”
Taiwan became a founding member of the Asian Development Bank under its formal name, the Republic of China. But when the People’s Republic of China joined in 1986, the bank changed Taiwan’s designation to “Taipei, China.” Taiwan boycotted the bank for a period, in protest.
一名中國官員周一表示，因為對用甚麽名稱的不合一向沒有辦理，台灣將不作為開創成員參加亞洲基本舉措措施投資銀行(Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank)。
台灣在3月31日提交了作為開創成員參加亞投行的意向書。北京固然迎接台灣的介入，但表現，台灣必需以“恰當名義”參加，這註解在對台灣主權這個有爭議題目上大概有不合。
國務院台灣事件辦公室談話人馬曉光周一在一份書面聲明中說，“近期，咱們也留意到台灣方面就其介入的方法、名義等題目揭櫫了意見，咱們樂意持續聽取各方面看法，以妥當辦理台灣方面介入亞投行的題目。”
該聲明證明了中國國度消息媒體的一篇報導，報導稱台灣不會作為開創成員參加亞投行，但仍可以作為通俗成員參加。
1949年，中海內戰停止後，蔣介石率領公民黨部隊逃到台灣，今後台灣與中國大陸決裂。中國以為，自治的台灣還是中國國土的一部門，其實不消除應用武力以阻攔台灣的正式自力。中國應用本身的影響力限定台灣對國際構造的介入，經常迫使台灣應用表示中國主權的名稱，好比“中華台北”，這是台灣加入奧運會和亞太經合構造論壇時用的名稱。
台灣官員曾表現，可以接收以“中華台北”的名義成為亞投行成員。北京對願望台灣以甚麽名稱參加該構造並未做出表現。
台灣賣力中國政策的行政院大陸委員會周一說，台灣對不克不及在第一輪參加亞投行表現“遺憾”，但表現，只要台灣的權柄獲得保障，仍盼望參加。
美國曾批駁建立亞投行，並向其友邦施壓，讓它們不要加入該項目，然則，列國紛紜表現介入仿佛讓構造者中都城覺得了驚奇。今朝已有46個國度表現樂意成為亞投行的開創成員，個中包含如澳大利亞、英國、韓國等美國盟友。
台灣總統馬英九的一名談話人上個月表現，參加亞投即將會增長環球對台灣的承認，增進台灣融入地區經濟，也會對台灣參加其他國際構造有贊助。但行政院院長毛治國表現，假如不克不及在有“莊嚴”、“同等”的前提下參加，台灣“就不加入”。
台灣以其正式名稱“中華民國”成為亞洲開辟銀行(Asian Development Bank)的開創成員。然則，傍邊華國民共和國在1986年參加時，亞洲開辟銀行把台灣的名稱改成“中華台北”，台灣曾有一段時光謝絕出席該銀行的集會，以示抗議。
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