On February 17, 2024 local time, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi attended the Munich Security Conference. He delivered a keynote speech and answered questions on the Taiwan question on the spot during the "Conversation with China" session.

Wang Yi said that Taiwan has always been part of China. In 1943, the governments of China, the United States and Britain jointly issued the Cairo Declaration, which stipulates clearly that Taiwan stolen by Japan shall be restored to China. The Potsdam Proclamation, aimed at ending World War II and issued in 1945, stipulates in Article 8 that the terms of the Cairo Declaration shall be carried out. The UN documents have more clearly described Taiwan as a province of China. All these facts have fully demonstrated that the Taiwan question is one hundred percent China's internal matter. Taiwan has never been and will never be a country. This is a basic historical fact and an international consensus.

Wang Yi said, as an unsettled question since the Chinese civil war, Taiwan will eventually return to the embrace of the motherland and the two sides of the Taiwan Strait will surely achieve reunification. It is the firm will of the 1.4 billion Chinese people and an inevitable trend of history. It serves the interests of all parties to maintain stability across the Taiwan Strait. It is the "Taiwan independence" forces on the island that undermine peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. "Taiwan independence" is as incompatible with peace across the Taiwan Strait as fire with water. To uphold the one-China principle, one should support China's peaceful reunification, and to maintain peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait, one must oppose "Taiwan independence".