"I suggest that everybody starts to think calmly, especially
friends in Europe, about what kind of efforts we can make to
stop this war," said Wang, the director of the Office of the
Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC)
Central Committee.
Wang also said there were "some forces that seemingly don't want
negotiations to succeed, or for the war to end soon," without
specifying to whom he was referring.
China will set out its position on settling the Ukraine crisis
in a document that will state all countries' territorial
integrity must be respected, Wang said.
Asked to reassure the audience that military escalation was not
imminent over the Taiwan Strait, Wang said Taiwan "independence
forces" are incompatible with peace.
China claims democratically ruled Taiwan as its own.
"If we want to maintain peace across the Taiwan Strait, we must
resolutely oppose Taiwan independence, and we must resolutely
maintain the one-China policy."
(Reporting by David Kirton in Shenzhen, China, Ryan Woo in
Beijing and Laura Lin in Shanghai; editing by Jason Neely)
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