Source record CMC Political Work Department · 2026-05-20

Ministry of National Defense Spokesperson Jiang Bin Answers Reporter Questions on the Taiwan Region Leader's '5·20' Speech

国防部新闻发言人蒋斌就台湾地区领导人“5·20”讲话答记者问

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记者：据报道，赖清德5月20日发表讲话，声称维持台海和平稳定是台湾的“战略目标”，鼓噪强化不对称战力，提升“全民防卫韧性”。请问对此有何评论？蒋斌：面对祖国必然统一的大势和国际格局深刻调整的现实，赖清德依旧沉迷于“倚外谋独”的幻觉，打着所谓“和平”的幌子，大肆兜售“台独”谬论，煽动“以武谋独拒统”，妄图改变台湾属于中国这一根本现状，将谋“独”野心置于台湾民众福祉之上，完全是自欺欺人、打错算盘。赖清德当局罔顾民族大义和台湾主流民意，勾连外部势力谋“独”挑衅，是导致台海局势紧张动荡的根源所在。其固守不可能实现的“台独”执念，变本加厉拿老百姓的血汗钱媚外输诚，强行把台湾民众绑上“台独”战车，一步步把台湾推向兵凶战危的险境。正告民进党当局，砸再多的钱，买再多的武器，都是螳臂当车、以卵击石，“以武谋独”死路一条，祖国统一才是光明大道。国土不可分、民族不可散，“台独”与台海和平水火不容。解放军始终保持高度戒备，坚决挫败任何“台独”妄动，坚决捍卫国家主权和领土完整。

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MND spokesperson Jiang Bin, responding to Lai Ching-te's May 20 inauguration speech, rejected Lai's framing of cross-strait stability as a Taiwanese strategic goal and characterized his calls for asymmetric capability-building and whole-of-society defense resilience as provocations toward armed conflict rather than deterrence. The statement closes with a direct PLA readiness assertion — 'maintain a high state of readiness, resolutely defeat any reckless act' — which documents Beijing's standard post-inauguration rhetorical posture but also extends the pattern of explicitly linking Lai's defense policy language, not just political statements, to the threshold for military response.

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Source text. CMC Political Work Department. "国防部新闻发言人蒋斌就台湾地区领导人“5·20”讲话答记者问." PLA Daily (解放军报), 2026-05-20. http://www.81.cn/yw_208727/16462415.html.

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