(21 May 2025)
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Taipei – 21 May 2025
1. Wide of Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung arriving at news conference
2. Close of photographer
3. Wide of news conference
4. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Lin Chia-lung, Foreign Minister:
"The Chinese Communist Party often uses various means of control, such as the Belt and Road Initiative, to bribe third-world countries, but the quality of the projects provided is poor, leading many countries to bankruptcy. Those that were once our diplomatic allies, but after establishing relations with China, an outbreak of infectious diseases occurred, resulting in significant food security issues."
5. Journalist asking question
6. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Lin Chia-lung, Foreign Minister:
"China offers benefits and money to its diplomatic allies, forcing them to support China’s interpretation of UN Resolution 2758 (1971 U.N. resolution) and the One China principle, creating confusion globally."
7. Wide of news conference
8. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Lin Chia-lung, Foreign Minister:
"Our response is that we must not let China use legal warfare to resolve the Taiwan issue through force, undermining the current status of mutual non-subordination between Taiwan and China, and turn the Taiwan issues into its domestic issue."
9. Wide of journalists
10. Lin leaving
STORYLINE:
Taiwan’s foreign minister on Wednesday alleged that China is using cash and other inducements to win over developing countries to its position on the self-governing island but claimed that such tactics are losing their effectiveness.
Lin Chia-lung told reporters that China’s goal is to persuade these nations to cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan, and stand with Beijing on issues it says prove Taiwan is part of China.
Lin offered no proof for his allegations and there was no immediate reaction from Beijing.
The minister said that key to that argument is a 1971 U.N. resolution that handed the China seat at the Security Council to Beijing, effectively kicking out Chiang Kai-shek’s representatives who had held it even after fleeing to Taiwan when the Communists took over China in 1949.
The resolution says nothing about self-governing Taiwan’s representation, but China and its allies have been using it as proof that there is only one China, of which Taiwan is an indivisible part.
Lin also alleged that in developing nations, “China is using cheap construction” of projects from stadiums to railway lines to win the countries over.
“We must not let China have what it wants in terms of using legal warfare to make the Taiwan issue its domestic issue," Lin said, adding that Taiwan needs to harness the support from the United States and the European Union in defying Beijing.
Chinese economic pressure has reduced the number of Taiwan’s formal diplomatic allies to just 12, mainly small island nations in the South Pacific and Caribbean.
Taiwan also lost allies from among Central American countries in recent years.
In deference to Beijing, the U.S. maintains only unofficial relations with Taipei, but remains its chief economic backer and source of weaponry to defend itself from China’s threat to invade the island.
Meanwhile, Chinese diplomatic pressure, often won through gifts to poor nations, has kept Taiwan out of the United Nations and most other international forums, Lin claimed.
China refuses to deal with Taiwan’s pro-independence government and has been pressing its diplomatic campaign to isolate the island.
AP video by Johnson Lai
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