Global Times
Jun 14, 2022
In response to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's remarks while answering a question over the Taiwan question at the Shangri-La Dialogue, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Monday that it has been used by some forces to create tensions between China and Ukraine, reiterating that the Taiwan question, which is China's internal affair, is fundamentally different from the Ukraine issue.
During a video call with Zelensky at the Shangri-La Dialogue, a reporter with the Washington Post asked what advice he had regarding China's Taiwan, "which is facing a similar (although not yet violent) campaign of economic and military coercion from its neighbor, China."
Zelensky said the Ukraine example shows that once violence breaks out, the human costs are staggering, so every effort must be made to find a diplomatic solution to avoid outright conflict, if possible. But at the same time, he said, the international community must intervene before tensions spill over into violence to ensure a smaller country can stand up to an aggressor.
It is worth noticing that while the Ukrainian President did not mentioned the island of Taiwan in his remarks, the Washington Post titled the article "Zelensky calls for international support for Taiwan before China attacks."
At Monday's press conference, Wang noted that Zelensky's remarks, as some media pointed out, have been used by some forces to create tensions between China and Ukraine.
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