Seoul protested about an official reference to ‘two states’ in Korea, while Beijing complained about an art exhibition’s ‘Taiwan Pavilion’
3-MIN READ3-MIN ListenOrange WangPublished: 7:12pm, 4 Sep 2026Updated: 7:14pm, 4 Sep 2026China and South Korea have exchanged formal protests over the highly sensitive Taiwan question and Korean unity.
“Because the Chinese side’s post-meeting statement included the expression ‘two states’ and this differs from what we think, we raised a serious objection,” Wi said in a press briefing.
South Korea does not recognise North Korea as a separate sovereign state, instead viewing the Korean peninsula as a single territory awaiting reunification.
