MOFA response to comments by Chinese ambassador to US demanding that US not cross China’s “red lines”

November 4, 2025

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) notes that Chinese Ambassador to the United States Xie Feng recently made public remarks in which he emphasized China's "red lines" and stated that trouble would ensue if the United States crossed such lines. These comments were made after the Chinese Embassy in the United States posted satellite imagery of Taiwan on its social media accounts.

China consistently engages in intimidating, provocative, and extremely unfriendly behavior that is not conducive to regional peace and stability. This once again shows that China's government continues to attempt to alter the status quo through coercion.

MOFA stresses that Taiwan, the United States, and other like-minded nations have always striven to jointly uphold the status quo of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. The international community is also quite clear as to which party has been continually seeking expansionism in the region in recent years in an attempt to disrupt and challenge the status quo. This party has used coercive gray-zone tactics to undermine regional stability and the international order. Authoritarian nations cannot claim to stand for stability when they act as troublemakers by constantly and unilaterally establishing so-called "red lines" and taking provocative steps to upend the status quo of regional and global peace and stability.

As a responsible member of the international community, Taiwan will continue to work with regional partners that have shared interests-such as the United States-to ensure the peace, stability, and prosperity of the Taiwan Strait and the region.