TAIPEI, Taiwan – China and Taiwan exchanged accusations Monday for a violent altercation that erupted between Chinese diplomats and Taiwanese government workers at a recent reception for Taiwan National Day in Fiji.
China and Taiwan showed the October 8 incident, but all disputed the other’s claim about the cause of the fight, which resulted in a Taiwanese staff being sent to a hospital with a head injury. One of the Chinese diplomats was also injured.
The confrontation, an excessive example of tensions between rival governments, erupted when Taiwanese attending the demonstration tried to prevent Chinese diplomats from taking photos of visitors at the reception marking Taiwan National Day and interrupting the event, according to a report by Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry.
“We strongly condemn the violence that opposes our diplomat in Fiji through China’s uncivilized wolf warriors,” Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said Monday night on Twitter. A force for intelligence in the world and we will be intimidated.
Taiwan’s ministry had made an official protest to the Fijian government.
The Chinese embassy in Fiji said Monday that Taiwan’s version was “incompatible with the facts. “He said one of his workers had also been injured.
“That night, the staff of the Taipei industry workplace in Fiji acted provocatively against Chinese embassy staff performing their official tasks in the public domain outside the reception site, causing injuries and injuries to a Chinese diplomat,” the paper told me.
The Chinese aspect also criticized the birthday component of the national holiday, saying it “violates the precept of a China and the applicable regulations and regulations of the Fijian government, with an attempt to create ‘two China’ or ‘one China, one Taiwan’. internationally, ” he added. China’s precept refers to the concept that Taiwan, an autonomous island democracy, is a component of China.
On Monday afternoon, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian criticized the flags and cake on display on the Taiwanese side.
“The Taipei Trade Office in Fiji held a brazen” national celebration “on October 8. The fake flag was publicly displayed on site, and the cake was also marked with a false flag,” he said at a regime press conference. violate the principle of one China. “
Taiwan identifies as an independent government across 15 countries, most of them small and poor, but its democratically elected government maintains broad publicity and casual ties with many countries.
Fiji transferred its diplomatic popularity to Beijing 1975. La national day celebration in Suva, Fiji’s capital, organized through the Taipei Trade Office.
Chinese diplomats have become increasingly assertive as Beijing intensifies its long-standing tension over other governments to isolate Taiwan, which broke away from the continent in 1949 after a civil war.
This year, the Chinese Embassy in Thailand accused critics of “betraying history” in a war on social media over the origin of the coronavirus epidemic and that of Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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Associated Press assistant Liu Zheng contributed to the report.
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