By playing with fire on Taiwan, US quite likely to burn itself

US National Security Adviser John Bolton's meeting with Taiwan "security apparatus chief" David Tawei Lee a few days ago is a serious breach of the Sino-US consensus on the one-China principle, which the two sides reached in 1979 when Beijing and Washington established diplomatic relations.

The fact that there is only one China has been accepted by almost all countries, including the United States. The United Nations, on its part, officially replaced Taiwan with Beijing as the sole legitimate representative of China in 1971.

Taiwan has been an integral part of China since ancient times.