BEIJING – Military drills held by Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities are nothing but grandstanding and will prove futile, a mainland spokesperson said Wednesday.

Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, made the remarks in response to a media query about a military drill staged by Taiwan authorities this week.

The DPP authorities' attempt to seek "Taiwan independence" by force and escalate cross-Strait confrontation makes them the root cause of tensions and instability across the Taiwan Strait, she said.

No matter how many drills the DPP authorities stage, they cannot alter the doomed fate of "Taiwan independence", nor can they hold back the irresistible historical trend of national reunification, she said.

Cross-Strait status quo 

Asked about comments by politicians from the DPP, who accused the mainland of changing the status quo through military and non-military actions, Zhu stressed attempts to define the status quo across the Taiwan Strait under a new "two states" theory run counter to legal principles, history and reality, constituting a fallacious separatist narrative advocating "Taiwan independence".

"Such claims are a complete distortion of facts and pure malicious hype," Zhu said. "There is only one China in the world, and Taiwan is part of China – and that is the true status quo of the Taiwan Strait."

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She pointed out that the DPP authorities have stubbornly adhered to their "Taiwan independence" stance, refused to recognize the 1992 Consensus that embodies the one-China principle, and continually colluded with external forces in provocative acts aimed at seeking "Taiwan independence", making themselves the disruptor of the cross-Strait status quo and the biggest source of instability across the Strait.