Source record CMC Political Work Department · 2026-07-09

Ministry of National Defense: 'Taiwan Independence' Is a Dead End; Reunification Is the Right Path

国防部：“台独”是绝路统一是正道

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Source-stated publication date	2026-07-09
Original URL	http://www.81.cn/yw_208727/16472682.html
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7月9日下午，国防部新闻发言人陈曦大校就近期涉军问题发布消息。记者：据报道，赖清德在出席台军校毕业典礼时称，台将持续加强对外军购和防卫自主。近期，台海军还调整组建“滨海作战指挥部”。请问有何评论？陈曦：赖清德鼓噪“以武谋独”、“倚外谋独”，再次暴露其“和平破坏者”、“战争煽动者”的真实面目。无论赖清德说什么、做什么，都改变不了两岸军力对比态势，更阻挡不了祖国必然统一的历史大势。 “台独”是绝路，统一是正道。希望广大台湾同胞看清民进党当局顽固坚持“台独”分裂路线的极端危险性、危害性，与我们一道坚决打击“台独”分裂势力，反对外部势力干涉，共同维护台海和平稳定。

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MND spokesperson Senior Colonel Chen Xi, responding on July 9 to Lai Ching-te's remarks at a Taiwan military academy graduation and the Taiwan Navy's establishment of a Littoral Operations Command, characterized Lai as a 'destroyer of peace' and 'instigator of war' pursuing independence through arms procurement and foreign reliance. The statement is standard MND spokesperson boilerplate triggered by a specific Taiwanese institutional action — the Littoral Operations Command reorganization — and documents Beijing's public framing of that reorganization as a provocation rather than a legitimate defense measure. The appeal to 'Taiwan compatriots' to join in 'striking against' independence forces extends the rhetorical target beyond Taipei's leadership to the Taiwan public, a framing worth tracking as a baseline for how the MND calibrates its messaging when responding to concrete Taiwanese military structural changes.

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Source text. CMC Political Work Department. "国防部：“台独”是绝路统一是正道." PLA Daily (解放军报), 2026-07-09. http://www.81.cn/yw_208727/16472682.html.

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