meng.huat Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 (edited) Focus on COVID-19 battle, France tells China after Taiwan warning PARIS: France dismissed Chinese warnings on Wednesday (May 13) about selling arms to self-ruled Taiwan, saying it was implementing existing deals and that Beijing should focus on battling the COVID-19 pandemic. China's foreign ministry warned Paris over a contract for Taiwan, which is planning to buy weapons from Paris as part of an upgrade to a French-made warship fleet bought 30 years ago. China says Taiwan is part of "one China", and that this principle must be accepted by any country with which it has diplomatic relations. Arms sales to Taiwan are always highly sensitive and regularly prompt a strong reaction from Beijing. The French foreign ministry responded by saying it followed a "one China" policy as agreed with Beijing in 1994 and continued to urge both sides to hold dialogue. "Within this context France respects the contractual commitments it made with Taiwan and has not changed its position since 1994," the ministry said in a statement. "Facing the COVID-19 crisis, all our attention and efforts should be focused on battling the pandemic." The timing of the dispute is awkward for Paris, which has ordered millions of face masks from China because of the coronavirus outbreak. Last month, the French foreign ministry summoned China's ambassador over posts and tweets by the embassy defending Beijing's response to the pandemic and criticising the West's handling of the outbreak. "COMBAT NEEDS" Taiwan is mostly equipped with U.S.-made weapons, but in 1991 France sold Taiwan six Lafayette frigates, to China's anger. France also sold Taiwan 60 Mirage fighter jets in 1992. Taiwan said last month it was seeking to buy equipment from France to upgrade the ships' missile interference system. In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said China resolutely opposed any arms sales to Taiwan. "We have already expressed our serious concern to France," he told a daily news briefing. "We again urge the French side to abide by the one China principle and withdraw the arms sale plan to Taiwan to avoid harming Sino-French relations." Taiwan's Defence Ministry quoted the navy as saying it was following related procurement regulations for the arm purchase to meet its "combat needs". It declined further comment. Taiwan media reported that Taiwan was proposing to spend around NT$800 million (US$26.8 million) on the DAGAIE missile interference system from French firm DCI-DESCO. Taiwan says it needs to upgrade its armed forces to deal with a growing threat from China, which has stepped up military drills near the democratic island. China describes Taiwan as its most sensitive and important territorial issue, and has never renounced the use of force to bring the island under its control. Taiwan has shown no interest in being ruled by autocratic China. Source: Reuters https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/focus-on-covid-19-battle--france-tells-china-after-taiwan-warning-12728994 Edited May 14, 2020 by meng.huat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XianGe Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 French toast will bow down to bro xi supremacy... Tink they already bought tiongland 5G so sooner or later will kneel down and swallow the weapon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaur4man Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 5 minutes ago, XianGe said: French toast will bow down to bro xi supremacy... Tink they already bought tiongland 5G so sooner or later will kneel down and swallow the weapon... I don't think so....don't underestimate the French.....wahaha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XianGe Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 2 minutes ago, aaur4man said: I don't think so....don't underestimate the French.....wahaha French toast can only make killer drugs... Bro xi has zounds of $$$ to destroy them.... Bro Xi also has their secrets... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meng.huat Posted May 14, 2020 Author Share Posted May 14, 2020 5 minutes ago, aaur4man said: I don't think so....don't underestimate the French.....wahaha yup... the french are know to be cunning bastards... they flip and turn their words faster than us flipping underwear... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socrates469bc Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 at the rate Emperor Xi and CCP r ruining tiongland, the economic reforms by Uncle Deng will be rolled back by at least 20 yrs, https://series.scmp.com/grim-outlook-chinese-unemployment/ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socrates469bc Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 1 hour ago, meng.huat said: yup... the french are know to be cunning bastards... they flip and turn their words faster than us flipping underwear... 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satki Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 Throughout history the French are never liked why is exhorting expletives has to seek a pardon for the French? Is that a slur that all expletives sound like french? 2 Helping a friend to gain more subscribers. He is quite a talented music creator. Look for "Thee Influence" in Youtube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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