Ambassador Tai emphasized that diplomatic relations between the PRC and the Vatican are indivisible from the religious relationship between the two polities. Despite its eagerness to normalize relations with mainland China, for the time being the Holy See isn't willing to risk creating a rupture within the Catholic Church by accepting the Chinese precondition that stipulates that the Vatican must forswear using religion as a pretext for interfering in Chinese internal affairs.
戴瑞明大使也強調，中梵外交關係與中梵宗教關係密不可分。