The Taiwan question is the most important and the most sensitive issue at the core of China-U.S. relations.
It reaffirms its interest in a peaceful settlement of the Taiwan question by the Chinese themselves.
Thus the Taiwan question moved from belligerency to political deferral.
"We'll have to use force to solve the Taiwan question."
Blood-and-soil nationalism is still very much alive in China - in the Taiwan question, for example.
He said he did not want to connect the Taiwan question "with other issues related to China-U.S. relations."
The Chinese themselves agreed to a peaceful settlement of the Taiwan question.
When President Nixon traveled to Beijing that year, his main obstacle was the Taiwan question.
China has blamed the United States for meddling in the Taiwan question.
Since 1972, progress has been made on the Taiwan question.