Taipei condemns 'shameless' China for accepting international support for island earthquake

Taiwan today denounced China as “shameless” because its permanent representative to the UN thanked the international community for its concern over the powerful earthquake that struck the island. China claims democratically-ruled Taiwan as its own territory and retains the right to speak on its own behalf on the international stage, angering Taipei as Beijing's communist government has never ruled the island and has no say in how Taiwan chooses to its leaders. Yesterday, after the 7-magnitude earthquake that struck eastern Taiwan left ten dead, China's permanent representative to the United Nations, Zheng Shuang, at a meeting on children's rights, said that another speaker had talks about the earthquake in “Taiwan of China”. China is concerned about the damage from the earthquake and has expressed its condolences to Taiwan, while also offering to send aid, […]
Source: News Beast

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