{"id":1414586,"date":"2022-04-01T09:30:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T13:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1414586"},"modified":"2022-04-01T09:30:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T13:30:18","slug":"singapore-pm-chinas-taiwan-stance-awkward-amid-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/singapore-pm-chinas-taiwan-stance-awkward-amid-ukraine-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore PM: China&#039;s Taiwan Stance &#039;Awkward&#039; amid Ukraine War"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsingapore-pm-chinas-taiwan-stance-awkward-amid-ukraine-war%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1414586&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Russia\u2019s military invasion of Ukraine in late February highlighted China\u2019s \u201cawkward\u201d stance toward Taiwan, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/aseanplus\/aseanplus-news\/2022\/03\/31\/singapore-pm-russia039s-invasion-of-ukraine-raises-039awkward-questions039-for-china\">said<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt [Russia\u2019s Ukraine invasion] violates the principles which the Chinese hold very dearly: territorial integrity and sovereignty, and non-interference,\u201d Lee said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIf you can do that to Ukraine, and if the Donbass (region) can be considered to be enclaves, and maybe republics, what about Taiwan?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Lee made the remarks during an appearance at a political forum in Singapore on March 30 moderated by Richard Haass, the president of the U.S.-based Council on Foreign Relations (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/about\">CFR<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Lee on Wednesday referred to two Russian-backed separatist entities in Eastern Ukraine\u2019s Donbas region known as the Donetsk and Luhansk People\u2019s Republics (DPR and LPR). The Kremlin on February 21 <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/1407581\">announced<\/a> plans to recognize the independence of the DPR and LPR. The development served as a springboard for Moscow\u2019s latest military offensive in Ukraine, which <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/1409329\">launched<\/a> on February 24.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20480384\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1388629983.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (R) (D-CA) accompanies Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (L) at the U.S. Capitol March 30, 2022 in Washington, DC.\u00a0 (Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Taiwan is an independent island nation in East Asia. Beijing claims Taiwan, which is located off China\u2019s southeastern coast, is a Chinese province and should be \u201creunified\u201d with the \u201cmainland.\u201d The Chinese Communist Party has in recent months increasingly threatened to ensure this \u201creunification\u201d takes place.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Communist Party has insisted its attitude toward Taiwan is not the same as Russia\u2019s stance toward eastern Ukraine\u2019s Donbas region \u2013 that Ukraine is a sovereign state and the \u201cpeople\u2019s republics\u201d are parts of that state, but Taiwan is not a legitimate sovereign entity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaiwan is for sure not Ukraine,\u201d Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying <a href=\"http:\/\/fmprc.gov.cn\/mfa_eng\/xwfw_665399\/s2510_665401\/2511_665403\/202202\/t20220223_10644886.html\">stated<\/a> during a regular press conference on February 23.<\/p>\n<p>China has declined to recognize the DPR and LPR as such because it believes such an assertion would undermine its policy toward Taiwan, a rift from its otherwise supportive attitude towards China.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese dictator Xi Jinping described the colonization of Taiwan as an \u201caspiration\u201d of the \u201cChinese nation in a recent video call. Xinhua, China\u2019s official state press agency, published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.cn\/english\/2021-11\/20\/c_1310322772.htm\">summary<\/a> of the call which read, in part:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The true status quo of the Taiwan question and what lies at the heart of one China, Xi pointed out, are as follows: there is but one China in the world and Taiwan is part of China, and the Government of the People\u2019s Republic of China is the sole legal government representing China.<\/p>\n<p>Calling achieving China\u2019s complete reunification an aspiration shared by all sons and daughters of the Chinese nation, Xi said, \u201cWe have patience and will strive for the prospect of peaceful reunification with utmost sincerity and efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat said, should the separatist forces for \u2018Taiwan independence\u2019 provoke us, force our hands or even cross the red line, we will be compelled to take resolute measures,\u201d Xi said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>China\u2019s position on Taiwan seems to contradict Beijing\u2019s self-proclaimed support of the concepts of territorial integrity and national sovereignty evident in its so-called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.us-taiwan.org\/resources\/faq-the-united-states-one-china-policy-is-not-the-same-as-the-prc-one-china-principle\/\">One China<\/a>\u201d principle. Beijing says it believes in the notions while flagrantly violating them as they apply to other independent nations and their territory, such as in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/14\/chinese-plaaf-orders-13-aircraft-to-penetrate-taiwans-adiz\/\">Taiwan<\/a> and the greater <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/14\/manila-summons-chinese-envoy-illegal-sulu-sea-intrusion\/\">South China Sea<\/a> region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s military invasion of Ukraine in late February highlighted China\u2019s \u201cawkward\u201d stance toward Taiwan, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said\u00a0Wednesday. \u201cIt [Russia\u2019s Ukraine invasion] violates the principles which the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}