1.媒体来源:
yahoo
2.完整新闻标题:
Beijing rebuffs Taiwan's infrastructure bank application
3.完整新闻内文:
China signalled on Tuesday that Taiwan would not be allowed to join the
Beijing-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), which is seen as
a counterweight to the Washington-based World Bank.
"As for Taiwan joining (the AIIB), we maintain that we should avoid the 'two
Chinas' and 'one China, one Taiwan' situation," foreign ministry spokeswoman
Hua Chunying told a regular briefing.
Taiwan will present a letter of intent to the AIIB preparatory committee, the
presidential office in Taipei said Monday following a national security
meeting chaired by Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou.
But Beijing regularly proclaims the importance of its "One China" policy,
seeing the island as part of its territory awaiting reunification, and often
curtails Taiwan's involvement in international agreements. The two split in
1949 at the end of the Chinese civil war.
Taiwan is not a member of the United Nations, World Bank or International
Monetary Fund.
But it has joined some international organisations under different names. The
International Olympic Committee refers to it as "Chinese Taipei", and it is
known as the Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu
at the World Trade Organization.
As the deadline to apply to become one of the $50 billion bank's founding
members approached on Tuesday more than 40 countries around the world had
sought to do so, including Britain, Germany, France and Italy, despite
scepticism about the AIIB in Washington and Tokyo.
Last week Beijing's vice finance minister Shi Yaobin said it "welcomes all
countries" to join the bank, which it has touted as a tool for financing
regional development alongside other lenders such as the US-led World Bank
and the Japan-led Asian Development Bank.
4.完整新闻连结 (或短网址):
http://news.yahoo.com/beijing-rebuffs-taiwans-infrastructure-
bank-application-091515941