March 16, 2021 – Executive President Su Tseng-chang: China’s blocking of French parliamentarians from coming to Taiwan to exchange experience in Epidemic prevention will make the world look down on them even more.
Taiwan’s political circles have expressed shock at the mainland’s attempt to exert pressure to prevent a delegation of French parliamentarians from visiting Taiwan to examine the country’s experience in epidemic prevention. Taiwan’s Executive President Su Tseng-chang criticized China’s obstructionist tactics as an infinite political overreach that would make the world look down on it, while presidential spokesman Zhang Dunhan said Xi Jinping‘s comments against bullying the strong and the weak were a slap in the face. French media “Alphabet A” reported on Monday (15) that Chinese Ambassador to France Lu Shano sent a letter to Alain Richard, chairman of the French Senate’s Friends of Taiwan group, requesting the cancellation of a congressional delegation to Taiwan being organized in response to the epidemic prevention work. (Zhong Guangzheng reports from Taipei)
In Taiwan, Executive President Su Tseng-chang responded to the French media report on Tuesday (16), saying that health has no national boundaries, and it is important to share the wisdom of epidemic prevention together.
The success of Taiwan’s epidemic prevention has been cited as a model by other countries, and they all want to borrow from it. This is not good for the whole world to prevent epidemics.
Foreign Minister Wu Zhaosub said that the Chinese government is doing everything possible to suppress Taiwan and its friends, which will only cause Taiwanese people to have deeper resentment towards the Chinese Communist Party. In the past few years cross-strait relations backward, the Chinese Communist Party’s diplomatic department’s War Wolf behavior, is the most important reason.
I think this is beyond the thinking of an ordinary civilized country, and I think we condemn this action of the Chinese ambassador to France,” Wu said. We welcome friends from anywhere in the world who wish to be friends with Taiwan. After the epidemic is over, many international friends may come to visit Taiwan, and we welcome them.
On behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chen Yongshao, acting director of the European Department, strongly condemned China.
Chen said: “The Chinese government and its diplomats have openly pressured the representatives of public opinion of other sovereign countries, attempted to interfere and threatened them, and China’s war-wolf diplomacy is not accepted by civilized countries with the rule of law and should be condemned by international public opinion. We call on the international community to face up to the brutal actions of the Chinese government and its intention to suppress Taiwan, and to exercise moral courage to resist China’s improper intervention.
Chen Yongshao pointed out that Taiwan’s representative in France, Wu Zhizhong, had made it clear during a media interview that Taiwan is a sovereign and independent country and naturally has the right to interact with members of parliament from various countries. The practice of mutual visits between Taiwan and France has been in place for years, and China has no right to make any comments.
Presidential spokesman Zhang Dunhan criticized Xi Jinping’s recent statement at the World Economic Forum that he “opposes the bullying of the weak” as a slap in the face.
The focus is still on China’s war-wolf diplomacy, which may not be recognized by the international community, as President Xi Jinping said, “China does not want to bully the strong and bully the weak,” he said.
According to the French online media La Lettre A, Chinese Ambassador to France Lu Shanno sent a harshly worded letter to Senator Richard Li of the ruling Republican Forward Party (La Republique en Marche) on Feb. 18.
The letter denounced Richard’s trip as a threat to the status quo between Beijing and Taipei. Lusano reminded Richard that there is only one China in the world, and that Taiwan is an integral part of China, and that the Friends of Taiwan group’s visit would not only undermine this principle, but would also send the wrong message to the forces of Taiwan independence.
The report said Richard was very dissatisfied with the tone of Luciano’s letter, saying that the Senate Friends of Taiwan Group would give a clear response to the Chinese ambassador.
Antoine Bondaz, a researcher at the French Foundation for Strategic Studies (FRS), wrote in a tweet, “This letter is an unacceptable interference by China in the French democracy. French senators are free to meet with whomever they deem appropriate, and Beijing must not dictate to French elected officials, especially Chinese diplomats.”
According to the information, Roussano is a hawkish advocate of diplomacy and has made several aggressive diplomatic statements in France. In April last year, Roussano was summoned by French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, who asked him to pay attention to “some of the inappropriate statements” published in his column on the Chinese Embassy‘s official website.
In addition, foreign media reported recently that the Quadripartite Security Dialogue (Quad), composed of Japan, the United States, Australia and India, plans to join France in the first joint military exercises of the five countries in the sea off India in early April.
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