President Tsai Ing-wen received a delegation of Slovak MPs on the morning of the 7th.Photo: Courtesy of the Presidential Palace
President Tsai Ing-wen recently met with a joint delegation of the Slovak Parliament and Bratislava Province, as well as a cross-party delegation of members of Congress, Joël Guerriau, Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of the French Senate and Vice-Chairman of the Taiwan Friendship Group. In this regard, Akio Yaita, director of the Taipei branch of Japan’s “Sankei Shimbun”, said in a Facebook post that the two countries basically did not reject China’s protests, which seemed to see through China’s “actually a paper tiger, which has already lost its skills.”
Akio Yaita mentioned that Tsai Ing-wen met with a delegation of French parliamentarians at the Presidential Palace on the 9th, and also met with two French parliamentary groups in October and December last year. The French parliament sent three delegations to Taipei within a year. Taiwan’s importance. Because Taiwan has been suppressed by China, there are only 14 diplomatic relations in the world. Tsai Ing-wen has not visited abroad for several years, but the expansion of Taiwan’s international space has not been affected at all. The reception of foreign guests at the Presidential Palace in Taipei has become Taiwan. A “new model” of diplomacy.
Akio Yaita pointed out that whenever a foreign dignitary comes to visit Taiwan, the Chinese government will jump and express strong opposition, but the effect of the protest has become smaller and smaller. Both the Slovak parliamentary group and the French parliamentary group turned a blind eye to China’s protests, and China might only make some nasty remarks on the official media, such as “the DPP authorities paid the French for a show”, etc., showing that they were full of “sour grapes”. smell”. The pioneer of this wave of foreign dignitaries visiting Taiwan should be the Czech speaker Miloš Vystrčil who came to Taiwan two years ago.
Akio Yaita continued to point out that in August 2020, Wade Qi came to Taiwan with a visiting delegation and gave a speech at the Legislative Yuan, citing the famous words of former US President Kennedy, “I am a Berliner,” and saying “I am a Taiwanese”, which inspired the hearts of the Taiwanese people. Support for Taiwan; following the incident, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi threatened to “pay a heavy price” and “won’t sit back and watch” for this behavior, but it seemed that only one batch of piano orders was cancelled. Czech officials later revealed that China’s retaliation The impact on the Czech Republic is “minimal”.
Akio Yaita emphasized that since then, countries seem to see that China is actually a paper tiger. They have been exhausted. They ignored China’s protests and visited Taiwan one following another. Countries in the democratic and free camp all over the world are vying to get closer to Taiwan. “I believe that in the future, Taiwan’s path to the international community will become wider and wider.”