China Demands ‘Unwavering Support’ for Taiwan Invasion from Defenders of UkraineGabrielle Reyes 22 Feb 2022
China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday compared the Donbas region of Ukraine, currently overrun by two Russian-backed separatist entities, to the sovereign state of Taiwan, urging the G7 member countries to grant “unwavering support” to a Chinese invasion of the island.
The remark, published through the Global Times‘ Twitter account – which the propaganda outlet possesses despite a blanket ban on Twitter in China – was a response to mounting criticisms of Russian leader Vladimir Putin who announced on Monday that he would recognize the separatists of Donetsk and Luhansk, Ukraine, as two sovereign states. Putin ordered Russian “peacekeeping” troops into the Ukrainian territories to defend the separatists from the Ukrainian military. Russia has been fueling a war between its proxies and Ukraine in the region since 2014.
Putin’s recognition of the territories as states complicates China’s relationship with Russia, as Beijing refuses to recognize even actual sovereign states like Kosovo if other states claim them as their own, equating all such movements with Taiwan. Taiwan is a sovereign, democratic country that has never been governed by any regime in Beijing.
The G7 is an inter-governmental forum consisting of member states with the world’s largest developed economies: the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Germany, Japan, France, and Italy. The group also includes the European Union (E.U.).
U.K. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss prompted the Global Times remark by publishing a statement on Twitter reading in part, “our support is unwavering for the territorial integrity of Ukraine.”
The Chinese newspaper’s social media page compared Taiwan to Donetsk and demanded support for “eradicating” the Taiwanese government.
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