March 19, 2021 - Epoch Times
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| China recently pressured a French lawmaker to cancel an official trip to Taiwan, even though the only purpose of the trip was to learn how the Taiwanese government successfully handled the COVID-19 pandemic. | |
| In response, Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the move and called out the Chinese regime's wolf warrior deployments. | |
| Wolf Warrior is the name of a 2015 Chinese war movie that promotes an aggressive and combative attitude towards the West and all nations that are considered as enemies by the communist regime. | |
| The aggressive style and approach adopted by Chinese diplomats under CCP leader Xi Jinping is described as Wolf Warrior diplomacy. | |
| According to a March 15th report from French newspaper La Letter A, China's ambassador to France, Lu Xiaoye, learned from the French Senate website that Senator Elaine Richard was planning to lead a parliamentary delegation to visit Taiwan in the summer. | |
| Richard is chairman of France-Taiwan Friendship Group. | |
| And his team wished to learn from Taiwan's experience in fighting the pandemic. | |
| Liu wrote a letter to Richard on February 18, pressuring him to cancel the trip. | |
| Liu reportedly told Richard that Taiwan is an indivisible part of China, and his planned visit is a violation of the one-China principle, and will affect the status quo between Beijing and Taipei. | |
| The Chinese Communist Party views Taiwan as part of its territory, despite the fact that Taiwan is a de facto independent country with its own military, democratically elected government, and constitution. | |
| Beijing has threatened to reunite the island with the mainland with military action. | |
| Since the CCP took over mainland China in 1949, it has repeatedly opposed foreign governments' official visits to Taiwan and pressured nations to sever diplomatic relations with the self-ruled island. | |
| During a press conference in Taipei on March 16, The Deputy Director General of Taiwan's Department of European Affairs said, the ministry strongly condemns Beijing for its rudeness. | |
| She also said that Beijing's wolf-warrior diplomacy is the reason why the tension between Taiwan and China has escalated in recent years. | |
| Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said on the same day that Beijing's wolf-warrior diplomacy is not acceptable to any civilized country that respects the rule of law and stressed that Taiwan welcomes friends from around the world. | |
| Taiwan's Premier Su Tseng Cheng criticized the Chinese regime's actions. | |
| Beijing's attempt to block exchanges between Taiwan and France on the coronavirus disease only created a bad impression of China on the international stage. | |
| Senator Richard served as French Minister of Defense from 1997 to 2002. | |
| He led delegations to Taiwan in 2015 and 2018. | |
| According to the French publication, Richard was very displeased about the tone in which the letter was written, and he is planning to give the Chinese embassy a clear reply. | |
| In response to the leaked letter from Liu, Foreign Ministry of France said on March 17 that French senators are free to meet In April 2020, French lawmakers condemned the Chinese embassy for posting false accusations on its official website with regards to the COVID-19 pandemic and the World Health Organization. | |
| The Post defended Beijing's response to the pandemic and criticized Western countries, saying that health care workers at Western nursing homes abandoned their jobs, leaving the residents to die. | |
| The Post came just days after France had raised its pandemic death toll. | |
| which included victims from nursing homes. | |
| Chinese Ambassador Liu was summoned by French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on April 16, 2020, over the inappropriate statement posted on the Chinese Embassy's website. | |
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