Taiwan’s foreign minister on Tuesday criticized China’s efforts to portray itself as a peacemaker in the Ukraine conflict while “threatening war” against the self-ruled island.
“China threatens war against Taiwan and others, but wants to propose a peace plan for Russia, which started the war against Ukraine,” Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said on the Twitter account of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan.
“We are not idiots. Want peace? Both autocrats must immediately stop their threats, aggressions and expansionism.”
Wu’s apparent reference to Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin comes as Xi makes a three-day trip to Moscow, which Beijing calls “a journey of peace”.
Putin said on Monday that Russia was ready to study China’s proposal to resolve the situation in Ukraine, but Western leaders expressed skepticism about Beijing’s role as a peacemaker.
Beijing’s claim to neutrality has been severely undermined by its refusal to acknowledge the nature of the conflict – it has so far avoided calling it an “invasion” – and its diplomatic and economic support for Moscow.
China’s Communist Party has never controlled Taiwan, but it claims the island’s autonomous democracy as its own and has repeatedly refused to rule out taking it by force.
China is also increasingly exerting its military pressure on Taiwan, regularly sending aircraft and warships across the midline of the Taiwan Strait.
Source: CNN Brasil
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