China irate over Kyiv pro-Taiwan group

[luv2fly]

China irate over Kyiv pro-Taiwan group
DISPUTE BREWING: Beijing is worried Kyiv’s defense against Russia could become a model for Taiwanese resistance against China, Ukrainian lawmaker Inna Sovsun said
By Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff writer, with CNA

The Chinese embassy in Ukraine attempted to thwart the Ukrainian parliament’s plan to establish a pro-Taiwan group, Newsweek magazine reported on Saturday.

Ukraine’s parliament on Aug. 17 launched the Taiwan Friendship Group, which is led by Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Oleksandr Merezhko and consists of 15 lawmakers, two-thirds of whom belong to the ruling party.

Newsweek reported that “a diplomatic dispute is brewing between Ukraine and China” as Beijing lodged a protest against the newly established group at the Ukrainian embassy in China last week.

Merezhko was quoted as saying that China is “trying to dictate what a foreign parliament should do,” adding that he turned down a request to meet with Chinese Ambassador to Ukraine Fan Xianrong ( 范先榮 ) prior to the initiation of the group.

Story at

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2022/08/30/2003784396

[Irish_Dem]

1. Xi is probably very angry that Putin screwed up so badly.

The Chinese-Russian alliance to shift world power in their favor is not going as they planned.

[BeyondGeography]

2. Brilliant move by the Ukrainians.

Arrogance and naïveté from China.