As one generation after another continues to live in denial, the lies will corrode everything they touch. The Chinese people will no longer know what is personal honesty or historical truth, and they will repeatedly abuse, miss, or forsake historic opportunities.

My Government has plainly and categorically made its views and position known on the appointment of the special envoy because we remain firmly convinced that such a course of action will, in addition to its negative legal ramifications, complicate and corrode altogether the final and binding nature of the decision of the Boundary Commission as well as key tenets of the Algiers Peace Agreement.